Lasius peritulus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LasiusPBDB
- 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 Lasius peritulus 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Lasius peritulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lasius peritulus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Lasius peritulus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
325 taxa- Aphaenogaster mayri7 sites
- Liometopum miocenicum7 sites
- Miomyrmex impactus7 sites
- Protazteca elongata7 sites
- Protazteca capitata6 sites
- Protazteca quadrata6 sites
- Dolichoderus antiquus5 sites
- Formica robusta5 sites
- Iridomyrmex5 sites
- Liometopum scudderi5 sites
- Messor draxil5 sites
- Dolichoderus rohweri4 sites
- Elaeomyrmex coloradensis4 sites
- Elaeomyrmex gracilis4 sites
- Camponotites petrifactus3 sites
- Cyttaromyia princetoniana3 sites
- Formica cockerelli3 sites
- Miomyrmex striatus3 sites
- Petraeomyrmex minimus3 sites
- Bibio wickhami2 sites
- Byrrhus romingeri2 sites
- Camponotites fuscipennis2 sites
- Cleonini2 sites
- Diamesa extincta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Lasius peritulus, 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
2 referencesEach 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 Lasius peritulus
- 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 Lasius peritulus 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.
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What may have been alongside itLasius through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cockerell 1927)