Emplastus haueri
Emplastus is an extinct morphogenus of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae, known from fossils found in Asia and Europe. The genus contains twelve species described from sites in England, Eastern Europe and Far Eastern Russia.

Vincent Perrichot · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
- EmplastusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 1.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 12.8 Mya and 11.63 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Emplastus haueri on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Emplastus haueri and its relatives
MioceneWhere Emplastus haueri and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Acrididae1 site
- Camponotites induratus1 site
- Emplastus antiquus1 site
- Eodecticus maculatus1 site
- Euprepocnemini1 site
- Formica parexsecta1 site
- Formica ungeri1 site
- Formicidae1 site
- Formicinae1 site
- Lasius anthracinus1 site
- Lasius globularis1 site
- Lasius longaevus1 site
- Lasius longipennis1 site
- Lasius occultatus1 site
- Lasius ophthalmicus1 site
- Liometopum imhoffii1 site
- Mastotermes haidingeri1 site
- Mastotermes minor1 site
- Oecophylla obesa1 site
- Oedipodinae1 site
- Ophion longaevus1 site
- Paraphaenogaster tertiaria1 site
- Platycheirus infumatus1 site
- Platycleis pongraczi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Emplastus haueri, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Emplastus haueri
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Vincent Perrichot
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Emplastus haueri 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Emplastus”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEmplastus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mayr 1867)