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Oecophylla megarche
Taxonomy
Oecophylla megarche was named by Cockerell (1915). Its type specimen is USNM 61423, a forewing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1915 | Oecophylla megarche Cockerell p. 486 figs. Pl 65, figs 1-3 |
| 1920 | Oecophylla megarche Donisthorpe p. 91 figs. Pl 5, figs 11,12 |
| 2012 | Oecophylla megarche Bolton |
| 2014 | Oecophylla megarche Dlussky and Perfilieva p. 426 figs. Pl 21, fig 6; text-fig 78A-E |
| 2017 | Oecophylla megarche Perfilieva et al. p. 399 |
| 2021 | Oecophylla megarche Perfilieva p. 79 |
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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.
†Oecophylla megarche Cockerell 1915
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: Priabonian or 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Priabonian | United Kingdom (Isle of Wight) | Oecophylla megarche (157669) | |
| Priabonian | United Kingdom (England) | Oecophylla megarche (21976 type locality: 123959 123960) |