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Tetraponera oligocenica

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Sima oligocenica was named by Theobald (1937). Its type specimen is Marseilles Museum C99, an exoskeleton (incomplete), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Célas, Gard (Museum Marseille collection), which is in a Priabonian lacustrine marl in France.

It was recombined as Tetraponera oligocenica by Dlussky (2009).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Sima oligocenica Theobald p. 127 figs. Pl X fig 16
2009Tetraponera oligocenica Dlussky p. 1077

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyFormicoidea
familyFormicidae()
subfamilyPseudomyrmecinaeSmith 1952
genusTetraponeraSmith 1852
speciesoligocenica()

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.

†Tetraponera oligocenica Theobald 1937
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Priabonian or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9France Sima oligocenica (type locality: 113709)