Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: K. Jessen. 2020. New fossil ants of the subfamily Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Upper Oligocene of Enspel (Westerwald Mountains, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 100:1007-1045
Belongs to Paraphaenogaster according to K. Jessen 2020
Sister taxa: Paraphaenogaster avita, Paraphaenogaster dumetorum, Paraphaenogaster freihauti, Paraphaenogaster hooleyana, Paraphaenogaster jurinei, Paraphaenogaster lapidescens, Paraphaenogaster loosi, Paraphaenogaster maculata, Paraphaenogaster maculipes, Paraphaenogaster microphthalmus, Paraphaenogaster paludosa, Paraphaenogaster pannonica, Paraphaenogaster schindleri, Paraphaenogaster shanwangensis, Paraphaenogaster tertiaria, Paraphaenogaster ussuriensis, Paraphaenogaster wettlauferi, Paraphaenogaster wuttkei
Type specimen: NHMM-PE1997/5991-LS, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Enspel, horizon S14, which is in a MP 28 crater lake shale in Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Enspel, horizon S14
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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