Dolichoderus cornutus
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Dolichoderus cornutus Temporal range:
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Worker in Baltic amber | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
Genus: | Dolichoderus |
Species: | †D. cornutus
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Binomial name | |
†Dolichoderus cornutus (Mayr, 1868)
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Dolichoderus cornutus is an extinct species of Eocene ant in the genus Dolichoderus. Described by Mayr in 1868, the fossils were discovered in the Baltic amber, where a fossilised worker ant was only described, and it is presumed these ants existed at least 40 million years ago.[1]
References
- ^ Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitr. Naturkd. Preuss. 1: 1-102 (page 61, pl. 3, fig. 52 worker described)
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