†Bombus (Timebombus) palaeocrater Engel and Wappler 2025 (bumble bee)
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Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae
Full reference: M. S. Engel and T. Wappler. 2025. Taxonomic names, in 24 million years of pollination interaction between European linden flowers and bumble bees. New Phytologist 248:2111-2127
Belongs to Bombus (Timebombus) according to M. S. Engel and T. Wappler 2025
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: NHMMZ PE 1997/6137a-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
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