†Tyrannomecia inopinata Jouault and Nel 2021 (bulldog ant)
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Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Full reference: C. Jouault and A. Nel. 2021. The oldest Cenozoic ant fossil: †Tyrannomecia gen. nov. (Formicidae: Myrmeciinae) from the Palaeocene Menat Formation (France). Historical Biology 34:2241-2248
Belongs to Tyrannomecia according to C. Jouault and A. Nel 2021
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MNHN.FA71374, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Menat (Olivier collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Menat (Olivier collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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