Chronomyrmex medicinehatensis
†Chronomyrmex medicinehatensis Temporal range: Campanian, Late Cretaceous Foremost Formation amber, Alberta, Canada | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
Tribe: | Leptomyrmecini |
Genus: | Chronomyrmex |
Species: | †C. medicinehatensis |
Binomial name | |
†Chronomyrmex medicinehatensis McKellar, Glasier & Engel, 2013 |
Perrichot (2019) confirms the placement of this species within the subfamily Dolichoderinae.
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Foremost Formation amber, Alberta, Canada (Campanian, Late Cretaceous).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †medicinehatensis. †Chronomyrmex medicinehatensis McKellar, Glasier & Engel, 2013a: 588, figs. 1-4 (w.) MEDICINE HAT AMBER (Canada: Alberta, Cretaceous).
- Status as species: Barden, 2017: 13.
Type Material
- Holotype, worker, Foremost Formation, Grassy Lake locality, southern Alberta (Late Cretaceous (Campanian) amber), Canada, Shane Leuck, UASM 336801, University of Alberta Strickland Entomology Museum, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; specimen trapped in drying line, partly obscured, with minor taphonomic distortion.
- Paratype, worker, partial specimen, Foremost Formation, Grassy Lake locality, southern Alberta (Late Cretaceous (Campanian) amber), Canada, Mark Elaschuk, UASM 336802, University of Alberta Strickland Entomology Museum, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; specimen largely undistorted, but translucent and partially disarticulated.
Description
References
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
- Barden, P., Engel, M.S. 2020. Fossil social insects. Encyclopedia of Social Insects, Springer, Cham (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90306-4_45-1).
- Borowiec, M.L., Moreau, C.S., Rabeling, C. 2020. Ants: Phylogeny and Classification. In: C. Starr (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Insects (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90306-4_155-1).
- Boudinot, B.E., Perrichot, V., Chaul, J.C.M. 2020. †Camelosphecia gen. nov., lost ant-wasp intermediates from the mid-Cretaceous (Hymenoptera, Formicoidea). ZooKeys 1005, 21–55 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1005.57629).
- Cantone, S., Von Zuben, C.J. 2019. The hindwings of ants: A phylogenetic analysis. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology 2019, 1–11 (doi:10.1155/2019/7929717).
- McKellar, R. C.; Glasier, J. R. N.; Engel, M. S. 2013. New ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) from Canadian Late Cretaceous amber. Bulletin of Geosciences 88:583-594.
- Perrichot, V. 2019. New Cretaceous records and the diversification of crown-group ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). 8th International Congress on Fossil Insects, Arthropods & Amber, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
- Radchenko, A.G. 2023. A New Ant Genus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Late Eocene Rovno Amber. Zoodiversity, 57(4), 323–336 (doi:10.15407/zoo2023.04.323).