Oecophylla brischkei

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OecophyllaPBDB
- 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 Oecophylla brischkei 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.
Oecophylla brischkei and its relatives
EoceneWhere Oecophylla brischkei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,894 taxa- Dolichoderus tertiarius7 sites
- Formica flori7 sites
- Prenolepis henschei7 sites
- Yantaromyrmex geinitzi7 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti6 sites
- Eocamponotus mengei6 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi6 sites
- Lasius schiefferdeckeri6 sites
- Cataglyphoides constricta5 sites
- Dolichoderus balticus5 sites
- Erotesis aequalis5 sites
- Holocentropus affinis5 sites
- Holocentropus atratus5 sites
- Holocentropus incertus5 sites
- Holocentropus vetustus5 sites
- Lype sericea5 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea5 sites
- Phryganea picea5 sites
- Plagiolepis klinsmanni5 sites
- Plectrocnemia lata5 sites
- Stenoptilomyia hyalina5 sites
- Tetraponera ocellata5 sites
- Tetraponera simplex5 sites
- Wormaldia aequalis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Oecophylla brischkei, 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- Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins4
- The Ants of the Baltic Amber2
- A fossil “social stomach”: micro‐CT imaging unearths first fossil record of ant proventriculi and comparative analysis with recent species1
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 Oecophylla brischkei
- 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 Oecophylla brischkei 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itOecophylla through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mayr 1868