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Myrmicium araripterum

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Pseudosiricidae

Taxonomy
Myrmicium araripterum was named by Freitas et al. (2020). Its type specimen is SGBFO-PA045, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Inhumas quarry, Santana do Cariri (Crato), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large lime mudstone in the Crato Formation of Brazil.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2020Myrmicium araripterum Freitas et al. p. 5 fig. 3,4

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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
speciesararipterum

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 araripterum Freitas et al. 2020
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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: Late/Upper Aptian or 122.46000 to 113.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Aptian122.46 - 113.0Brazil (Ceará) Myrmicium araripterum (type locality: 213661)