Where: Italy (37.4° N, 15.1° E: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 14.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Some propose an Oligocene age, or Upper Miocene to perhaps Pliocene. Found in place in Upper Miocene to Lower Pliocene sediments of central Sicily (Kohring & Schluter, 1989).
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original chitin, amber
Collection methods: Specimens in Museo Mineralogico dell'universita degli Studi, Bologna, Italy
Primary reference: W. L. Brown and F. M. Carpenter. 1978. A restudy of two ants from the Sicilian amber. Psyche 85:417-423 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123432: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Euconnus siculus n. sp.2
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Oecophylla sicula n. sp.1, Plagiolepis labilis n. sp.1, "Gesomyrmex corniger n. sp." = Sicilomyrmex corniger1, Ponera leptocephala n. sp.1, "Leptomyrmex maravignae n. sp." = Leptomyrmula maravignae1, ? Tapinoma sp.3, Tapinoma minutissimum n. sp.1, Technomyrmex deletus n. sp.1, "Aeromyrma sophiae n. sp." = Carebara sophiae1, Hypopomyrmex bombiccii n. gen. n. sp.1, Crematogaster praecursor n. sp.1, "Podomyrma (Acrostigma) mayri n. sp." = Podomyrma mayri1, Cataulacus silvestrii n. sp.1, Cataulacus planiceps n. sp.1, Ectatomma gracile n. sp.1
"Podomyrma (Acrostigma) mayri n. sp." = Podomyrma mayri1 Emery 1891 ant 16618 (2), 16624/5 (4), 16632
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Emeria simetitia n. gen. n. sp.4
Emeria simetitia n. gen. n. sp.4 Skalski 1988 chalcid wasp 16618/9, (Syninclusion with L. moravignae)
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