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 Myrmica according to K. Jessen 2020
Sister taxa: Myrmica aemula, Myrmica andryushchenkoi, Myrmica angusticollis, Myrmica damzeni, Myrmica dictyosa, Myrmica electrina, Myrmica eocenica, Myrmica incompleta, Myrmica intermedia, Myrmica lobifrons, Myrmica longispinosa, Myrmica macrocephala, Myrmica molassica, Myrmica nebulosa, Myrmica obsoleta, Myrmica paradoxa, Myrmica rudis, Myrmica saxonica, Myrmica schaefersi
Type specimen: NHMM-PE2001/5066-LS, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Enspel, horizon S16, which is in a MP 28 crater lake shale/tuff in Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Enspel, horizon S16
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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