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Cretotrigona prisca
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae
Taxonomy
Trigona prisca was named by Michener and Grimaldi (1988). Its type specimen is AMNH C88720, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is New Jersey amber, Delaware River, Kinkora, which is in a Maastrichtian terrestrial amber in New Jersey. It is the type species of Cretotrigona.
It was recombined as Cretotrigona prisca by Engel (2000) and Engel et al. (2023).
It was recombined as Cretotrigona prisca by Engel (2000) and Engel et al. (2023).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1988 | Trigona prisca Michener and Grimaldi p. 5 figs. 1-8 |
| 2000 | Cretotrigona prisca Engel p. 6 figs. 1-7 |
| 2023 | Cretotrigona prisca Engel et al. p. 293 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Cretotrigona prisca Michener and Grimaldi 1988
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 70.60000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Maastrichtian | USA (New Jersey) | Trigona prisca (type locality: 109025) |