Titanomyrma gigantea
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| †Titanomyrma gigantea Temporal range: Lutetian, Middle Eocene Messel, Germany | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formiciinae |
| Genus: | Titanomyrma |
| Species: | †T. gigantea |
| Binomial name | |
| †Titanomyrma gigantea (Lutz, 1986) | |
Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Messel, Germany (Lutetian, Middle Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's New General Catalogue, a catalogue of the world's ants.
- †gigantea. †Formicium giganteum Lutz, 1986: 190, figs. 3-8 (q.m.) GERMANY (Eocene). Combination in †Titanomyrma: Archibald, et al. 2011: 3680.
Description
References
- Lutz, H. 1986. Eine neue Unterfamilie der Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) aus dem mittel-eozänen Olschiefer der "Grube Messel" bei Darmstadt (Deutschland, S-Hessen). Senckenb. Leth. 67: 177-218.
- Archibald, S.B., Johnson, K.R., Mathewes, R.W., Greenwood, D.R. 2011. Intercontinental dispersal of giant thermophilic ants across the Arctic during early Eocene hyperthermals. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 278(1725): 3679–3686 (doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0729).
