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Titanomyrma gigantea
Taxonomy
Formicium giganteum was named by Lutz (1986). Its type specimen is SMF MeI 998, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Grube Messel Pit (Senckenberg SMF collection), which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany.
It was recombined as Titanomyrma giganteum by Archibald et al. (2011); it was recombined as Titanomyrma gigantea by Bolton (2012).
It was recombined as Titanomyrma giganteum by Archibald et al. (2011); it was recombined as Titanomyrma gigantea by Bolton (2012).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1986 | Formicium giganteum Lutz p. 190 figs. 3-8 |
| 2003 | Formicium giganteum Wappler p. 135 figs. 94; Pl 16 fig g-i; Pl 17 fig a |
| 2011 | Titanomyrma giganteum Archibald et al. |
| 2012 | Titanomyrma gigantea Bolton |
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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.
†Titanomyrma gigantea Lutz 1986
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||