Cretacoformica explicata

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Cretacoformica explicata
Temporal range: fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Uncertain
Genus: Cretacoformica
Species: C. explicata
Binomial name
Cretacoformica explicata
Jell & Duncan, 1986

The taxonomomic placement of this species is uncertain and it is currently considered incertae sedis in Hymenoptera, Apocrita.

Distribution

This taxon was described from Russia (Cretaceous).

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • explicata. †Cretacoformica explicata Jell & Duncan, 1986: 191, fig. 69 (m.) AUSTRALIA (Lower Cretaceous).
    • Excluded from Formicidae: Naumann, 1993: 355; Bolton, 1995b: 166.
    • Excluded from Formicidae, incertae sedis in APOCRITA: Grimaldi, Agosti & Carpenter, 1997: 7.

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