Myrmica rudis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MyrmicaPBDB
- 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.
7 occurrences of Myrmica rudis 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
7 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.
Myrmica rudis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Myrmica rudis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,589 taxa- Ctenobethylus goepperti5 sites
- Formica flori5 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi5 sites
- Lasius schiefferdeckeri5 sites
- Yantaromyrmex geinitzi5 sites
- Dolichoderus balticus4 sites
- Eocamponotus mengei4 sites
- Plagiolepis kuenowi4 sites
- Prenolepis henschei4 sites
- Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti3 sites
- Cataglyphoides constricta3 sites
- Dolichoderus cornutus3 sites
- Dolichoderus mesosternalis3 sites
- Dolichoderus sculpturatus3 sites
- Dolichoderus tertiarius3 sites
- Electrotrichia subtilis3 sites
- Elephantomyia (Elephantomyia) longirostris3 sites
- Enneamerus reticulatus3 sites
- Gnamptogenys europaea3 sites
- Helius minutus3 sites
- Holocentropus incertus3 sites
- Hypoponera atavia3 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea3 sites
- Pachycondyla succinea3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Myrmica rudis, 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
4 references- Myrmica ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in late Eocene European ambers2
- The Ants of the Baltic Amber2
- Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins2
- The Ants of the Genus Myrmica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Baltic and Saxonian Amber (Late Eocene)1
Each of the 7 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 Myrmica rudis
- 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 Myrmica rudis 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 itMyrmica through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mayr 1868)