Hypoponera atavia

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HypoponeraPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Hypoponera atavia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
8 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Hypoponera atavia and its relatives
EoceneWhere Hypoponera atavia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
2,223 taxa- Gesomyrmex hoernesi8 sites
- Prenolepis henschei8 sites
- Yantaromyrmex geinitzi8 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti7 sites
- Formica flori7 sites
- Lasius schiefferdeckeri7 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea7 sites
- Pachycondyla succinea7 sites
- Tetraponera simplex7 sites
- Plagiolepis klinsmanni6 sites
- Brachypogon (Isohelea) prominulus5 sites
- Bradoponera meieri5 sites
- Dolichoderus balticus5 sites
- Dolichoderus cornutus5 sites
- Dolichoderus tertiarius5 sites
- Enneamerus reticulatus5 sites
- Eocamponotus mengei5 sites
- Gnamptogenys europaea5 sites
- Holocentropus vetustus5 sites
- Lype sericea5 sites
- Monogedania clunipes5 sites
- Monomorium mayrianum5 sites
- Plagiolepis kuenowi5 sites
- Plectrocnemia lata5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Hypoponera atavia, 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
3 references- The ant subfamilies Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae, and Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the late Eocene ambers of Europe4
- Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins3
- The Ants of the Baltic Amber1
Each of the 8 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 Hypoponera atavia
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Hypoponera atavia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHypoponera through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mayr 1868)