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Cephalotes obscurus
Taxonomy
Zacryptocerus obscurus was named by Vierbergen and Scheven (1995). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican Amber (MCZ collection), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
It was recombined as Cephalotes obscurus by de Andrade and Baroni Urbani (1999) and Fernández and Sendoya (2004).
It was recombined as Cephalotes obscurus by de Andrade and Baroni Urbani (1999) and Fernández and Sendoya (2004).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1995 | Zacryptocerus obscurus Vierbergen and Scheven p. 164 fig. 8 |
1999 | Cephalotes obscurus de Andrade and Baroni Urbani p. 542 figs. 16C,D, 254, 255 |
2004 | Cephalotes obscurus Fernández and Sendoya p. 49 |
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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.
†Cephalotes obscurus Vierbergen and Scheven 1995
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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: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Langhian or 20.44000 to 13.82000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Burdigalian - Langhian | Dominican Republic | Cephalotes obscurus (122474 124281) Zacryptocerus obscurus (type locality: 21978) |