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Myrmicium nanus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Pseudosiricidae

Taxonomy
Pseudosirex nanus was named by Handlirsch (1906). It is an impression. Its type locality is Eichstätt, Solnhofen (Naturhistorischen Museum Wien collection), which is in a Tithonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Solnhofen Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Myrmicium nanus by Ponomarenko (1985) and Taeger et al. (2010).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1906Pseudosirex nanus Handlirsch p. 577
1932Pseudosirex nanus Carpenter p. 125
1985Myrmicium nanus Ponomarenko p. 137
2010Myrmicium nanus Taeger et al. p. 96

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
superfamilySiricoidea
familyPseudosiricidae
genusMyrmicium
speciesnanus()

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.

Myrmicium nanus Handlirsch 1906
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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Early/Lower Tithonian or 150.80000 to 145.00000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0Germany (Bavaria) Pseudosirex nanus (139876)
Early/Lower Tithonian150.8 - 145.0Germany (Bayern) Pseudosirex nanus, Myrmicium nanus (type locality: 123144)