Oecophylla obesa

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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 least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 12.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
7 occurrences of Oecophylla obesa on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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 occurrencesThese 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 obesa and its relatives
MioceneWhere Oecophylla obesa and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
165 taxa- Formicidae4 sites
- Camponotites induratus3 sites
- Formica ungeri3 sites
- Formicinae3 sites
- Lasius anthracinus3 sites
- Lasius globularis3 sites
- Lasius longaevus3 sites
- Lasius longipennis3 sites
- Lasius occultatus3 sites
- Lasius ophthalmicus3 sites
- Liometopum imhoffii3 sites
- Acrididae2 sites
- Bibio giganteus2 sites
- Cercopis charpentieri2 sites
- Cydnopsis haidingeri2 sites
- Emplastus miocenicus2 sites
- Euprepocnemini2 sites
- Greenidea pallescens2 sites
- Mastotermes haidingeri2 sites
- Myrmecites pusillus2 sites
- Nabis maculatus2 sites
- Oedipodinae2 sites
- Paraphaenogaster jurinei2 sites
- Paraphaenogaster tertiaria2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Oecophylla obesa, 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- Heer, 18493
- Early Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Radoboj, Croatia2
- Die Insekten der "Plattigen Steinmergels" von Brunstatt1
- Fossile Insecten aus dem Diatomeenschiefer von Kutschlin bei Bilin, Böhmen1
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 obesa
- 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 obesa 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 itOecophylla through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Heer 1849)