Ponerinae

Ponerinae

Kalyan Varma · Public Domain · 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
Sits inside
PoneriaPBDB
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 3 of 157 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 157 occurrencesEocene — about 83 of 157 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 157 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 50 of 157 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 157 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 157 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 5 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 11 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 10 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 35 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 18 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 8 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 15 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 17 occurrences13–9.6 Mya — about 9 occurrences9.6–6.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.4–3.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.2–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences89.8 Mya11.7 ka96 Mya0 Mya

157 occurrences of Ponerinae 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

157 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

16 formations

Messel — 49.93°N, 8.75°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WSalt — 47.69°N, 7.53°EShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EGreen River — 39.53°N, 107.95°WGreen River — 39.54°N, 108.12°WGreen River — 41.08°N, 109.26°WMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EFlorissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WArgun — 45.45°N, 36.47°ENiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°ECampagne-Calavon — 43.85°N, 5.58°ENaibuchi — 47.44°N, 142.76°EMost — 50.57°N, 13.73°EKishenehn — 48.39°N, 113.70°WFoulden Hills Diatomite — 45.53°S, 170.22°EKabaw — 21.68°N, 94.08°E

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The named rock units Ponerinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 95 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ponerinae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Ponerinae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,533 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Ponerinae, 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

46 references

Each of the 157 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. 34 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 Ponerinae

Credit
Kalyan Varma
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ponerinae was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itPoneria through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

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