Myrmicinae

Myrmicinae

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
Also called
antPBDB
Sits inside
MyrmicomorphaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 479 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 479 occurrencesEocene — about 225 of 479 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 54 of 479 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 157 of 479 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 479 occurrencesPleistocene — about 14 of 479 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 5 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 7 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–35 Mya — about 138 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 74 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 12 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 17 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 19 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 25 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 47 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 44 occurrences13–9.6 Mya — about 26 occurrences9.6–6.4 Mya — about 8 occurrences6.4–3.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.2–0 Mya — about 41 occurrences89.8 Mya11.7 ka96 Mya0 Mya

479 occurrences of Myrmicinae 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

479 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

26 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WFlorissant — 38.93°N, 105.24°WUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°ESalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EGrubstake — 63.86°N, 148.85°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EHydrobienkalk — 50.04°N, 8.24°EKap København — 82.47°N, 23.66°WKap København — 82.45°N, 24.10°WQuadra Sand — 49.29°N, 122.88°WCypris — 50.08°N, 12.54°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WKishenehn — 48.39°N, 113.70°WChojabaru — 33.78°N, 129.80°EAustralian Creek — 52.97°N, 122.50°WCockfield — 34.35°N, 92.78°WImuruk Volcanics — 65.88°N, 163.13°WLatah — 46.53°N, 116.79°WYanigua — 18.98°N, 69.45°WRita Blanca — 35.71°N, 102.45°WMessel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EHachiya — 35.48°N, 137.11°ENaibuchi — 47.44°N, 142.76°E

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The named rock units Myrmicinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 392 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Myrmicinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Myrmicinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,355 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 152 sites for Myrmicinae, 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

120 references

Each of the 479 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. 108 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 Myrmicinae

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 Myrmicinae 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itMyrmicomorpha through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau 1835)