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Camponotus petrifactus
| †Camponotus petrifactus Temporal range: Late Eocene Florissant, Colorado, United States | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Camponotini |
| Genus: | Camponotus |
| Species: | †C. petrifactus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Camponotus petrifactus Carpenter, 1930 | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from the Florissant, Colorado, United States (Late Eocene).
Biology
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †petrifactus. †Camponotus petrifactus Carpenter, 1930: 60, pl. 6, fig. 5 (w.) U.S.A. (Colorado, Florissant, Eocene).
- Status as species: Burnham, 1979: 116; Bolton, 1995b: 117.
Description
References
- Carpenter, F. M. 1930. The fossil ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 70: 1-66. (page 60, pl. 6, fig. 5 worker described)
- Perfilieva, K.S. 2022. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from localities of the Russian Far East (Amgu, Velikaya Kema). Paleontological Journal, 56(4), 412–425 (doi:10.1134/s0031030122040086).