Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: J. S. LaPolla and D. E. Greenwalt. 2015. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation. Sociobiology 62:163-174
Belongs to Formica according to J. S. LaPolla and D. E. Greenwalt 2015
Sister taxa: Formica alsatica, Formica arcana, Formica auxillacensis, Formica bauckhorni, Formica biamoensis, Formica buphthalma, Formica cantalica, Formica ceps, Formica cockerelli, Formica demersa, Formica eoptera, Formica flavifemoralis, Formica flori, Formica fusca, Formica globiventris, Formica grandis, Formica gravida, Formica gustawi, Formica heteroptera, Formica horrida, Formica immersa, Formica kutscheri, Formica latinodosa, Formica lavateri, Formica linquensis, Formica longicollis, Formica macrocephala, Formica macrophthalma, Formica maculipennis, Formica martynovi, Formica neorufibarbis, Formica obscura, Formica orbata, Formica ovala, Formica palaeopolonica, Formica paleosibirica, Formica parexsecta, Formica phaethusa, Formica pitoni, Formica primitiva, Formica primordialis, Formica procera, Formica pulchella, Formica radchenkoi, Formica ribbeckei, Formica robusta, Formica sepulta, Formica serresi, Formica seuberti, Formica strangulata, Formica surinamensis, Formica tripartita, Formica ungeri, Formica zherikhini
Type specimen: USNM 609591, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Spring site, Middle Fork Flathead River (Kishenehn), which is in a Lutetian lacustrine - large shale in the Kishenehn Formation of Montana.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Spring site, Middle Fork Flathead River (Kishenehn)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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