Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1920. T. D. A. Cockerell. 1920. Fossil Arthropods in the British Museum, I. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 5:273-279
Belongs to Oecophylla according to K. S. Perfilieva 2021
See also Bolton 2012, Cockerell 1920 and Perfilieva et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Oecophylla atavina, Oecophylla brischkei, Oecophylla crassinoda, Oecophylla eckfeldiana, Oecophylla grandimandibula, Oecophylla kraussei, Oecophylla leakeyi, Oecophylla longiceps, Oecophylla macroptera, Oecophylla megarche, Oecophylla obesa, Oecophylla praeclara, Oecophylla sicula, Oecophylla smaragdina, Oecophylla superba, Oecophylla taurica
Type specimen: British Museum In. 19036. Its type locality is Bagshot Beds, Bournemouth (BMNH), which is in a Lutetian pond claystone in the Poole Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bagshot Beds, Bournemouth (BMNH)
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