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Camponotites cockerelli

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Leucotaphus cockerelli was named by Donisthorpe (1920). Its type specimen is BMNH I.8517, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. 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.

It was recombined as Camponotus cockerelli by Dlussky and Perfilieva (2014); it was recombined as Camponotites cockerelli by Boudinot et al. (2024).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1920Leucotaphus cockerelli Donisthorpe p. 90 figs. Pl 5, fig 10
2012Leucotaphus cockerelli Bolton
2014Camponotus cockerelli Dlussky and Perfilieva p. 419 figs. Pl 19, fig 5; text-figs 73A,B
2024Camponotites cockerelli Boudinot et al. p. 144

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyFormicoidea
familyFormicidae()
—Antennoclypeata
subfamilyFormicinae
genusCamponotites
speciescockerelli()

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.

†Camponotites cockerelli Donisthorpe 1920
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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: Priabonian or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9United Kingdom (Isle of Wight) Camponotus cockerelli (157669)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9United Kingdom (England) Camponotus cockerelli (21976 123960) Leucotaphus cockerelli (type locality: 123959)