Amblyoponinae

April Nobile · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmblyoponomorphaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 28 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 12.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
10 occurrences of Amblyoponinae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
10 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
3 formations
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The named rock units Amblyoponinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Amblyoponinae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Amblyoponinae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
875 taxa- Formicidae4 sites
- Brachycera3 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi3 sites
- Aspidiotinae2 sites
- Camponotus2 sites
- Chrysomelidae2 sites
- Formicinae2 sites
- Myrmicinae2 sites
- Ponerinae2 sites
- Abelater succineus1 site
- Ablator triguttatus1 site
- Acanthoderes phrixi1 site
- Acanthosoma livida1 site
- Acanthosoma morloti1 site
- Acrocyrtus1 site
- Aenictus1 site
- Aeshnidae1 site
- Agabus ungeri1 site
- Agastomyrma laticeps1 site
- Agramma tertiarium1 site
- Agraylea spathifera1 site
- Agriocnemis lacteola1 site
- Agrothereutes townesi1 site
- Alifasciola sirdena1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Amblyoponinae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
9 references- The ant subfamilies Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae, and Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the late Eocene ambers of Europe2
- The mid-Miocene Zhangpu biota reveals an outstandingly rich rainforest biome in East Asia1
- Early Miocene Formicidae (Amblyoponinae, Ectatomminae, ?Dolichoderinae, Formicinae, and Ponerinae) from the Foulden Maar fossil Lagerstätte, New Zealand, and their biogeographic relevance1
- The ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bol'shaya Svetlovodnaya (late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian far east)1
- An early Miocene ant (subfam. Amblyoponinae) from Foulden Maar: the first fossil Hymenoptera from New Zealand1
- The poneromorph ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae: Amblyoponinae, Ectatomminae, Ponerinae) of Grube Messel, Germany: high biodiversity in the Eocene1
- Zhang, 19891
- Miocenovye muravwi (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) CCCP1
- Heer, 18491
Each of the 10 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Amblyoponinae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- April Nobile
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Amblyoponinae was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAmblyoponomorpha through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Forel 1893