†Meiatermes araripena Krishna 1990 (termite)
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Alternative combinations: Cretatermes araripena, Nordestinatermes araripena
Synonym: Cretatermes pereirai Fontes and Vulcano 1998
Full reference: K. Krishna. 1990. Insects from the Santana Formation, Lower Cretaceous, of Brazil. Chapter 5: Isoptera. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 195:76-81
Belongs to Meiatermes according to K. Krishna et al. 2013
See also Bechly 2007, Fontes and Vulcano 1998, Grimaldi et al. 2008, Krishna 1990 and Nel and Paicheler 1993
Sister taxa: Meiatermes bertrani, Meiatermes cretacicus, Meiatermes hariolus
Type specimens:
- Meiatermes araripena: AMNH 43902, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Crato (AMNH collection), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large carbonate in the Crato Formation of Brazil.
- Cretatermes pereirai: Vulcano 2452, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Crato (Vulcano collection), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large carbonate in the Crato Formation of Brazil.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Brazil (5 collections)
Total: 5 collections including 7 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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