Dolichoderinae

Dolichoderinae is a subfamily of ants that includes species such as the Argentine ant, the erratic ant, the odorous house ant, and the cone ant. The subfamily presents a great diversity of species throughout the world, distributed in different biogeographic realms, from the Palearctic, Nearctic, Afrotropical region and Malaysia, to the Middle East, Australian, and Neotropical regions.

Dolichoderinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DolichoderomorphaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 5 of 445 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 445 occurrencesEocene — about 297 of 445 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 19 of 445 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 108 of 445 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 445 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 445 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–74 Mya — about 1 occurrence74–71 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 6 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 8 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 41 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 218 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 21 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 5 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 5 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 5 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 10 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 33 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 28 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 31 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

445 occurrences of Dolichoderinae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

445 occurrences

These 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

25 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WGreen River — 39.54°N, 108.12°WGreen River — 42.13°N, 110.13°WSalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ENaibuchi — 47.44°N, 142.76°EKishenehn — 48.39°N, 113.70°WKabaw — 21.68°N, 94.08°EKizi — 45.48°N, 137.21°EForemost — 49.83°N, 111.70°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°WGrubstake — 63.86°N, 148.85°WAustralian Creek — 52.97°N, 122.50°WCockfield — 34.35°N, 92.78°WLatah — 46.53°N, 116.79°WYanigua — 18.98°N, 69.45°WBembridge Marls — 50.73°N, 1.38°WMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EArgun — 45.45°N, 36.47°EDunstan — 45.48°S, 169.31°EKhutsin — 45.87°N, 137.60°EPebas — 4.00°S, 73.15°W

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The named rock units Dolichoderinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 266 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dolichoderinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Dolichoderinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,909 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 147 sites for Dolichoderinae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

79 references

Each of the 445 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. 67 further references are not listed. 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 Dolichoderinae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Dolichoderinae 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Forel 1878