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Archimyrmex piatnitzkii

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Ameghinoia piatnitzkyi was named by Viana and Haedo Rossi (1957). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Pilcaniyeu road, near Rio Pichileufu, which is in a Lutetian crater lake mudstone in the Ventana Formation of Argentina.

It was recombined as Archimyrmex piatnitzkyi by Dlussky and Perfilieva (2003); it was recombined as Archimyrmex piatnitzkii by Archibald et al. (2006) and Dlussky (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1957Ameghinoia piatnitzkyi Viana and Haedo Rossi p. 113 figs. 1-3; text-figs 1-3
2003Archimyrmex piatnitzkyi Dlussky and Perfilieva p. 44 figs. 1d, 4e-g
2004Ameghinoia piatnitzkyi Fernández and Sendoya p. 29
2006Archimyrmex piatnitzkii Archibald et al.
2012Archimyrmex piatnitzkii Dlussky p. 289

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
Aculeata()
superfamilyFormicoidea
familyFormicidae()
subfamilyMyrmeciinaeSmith 1851
genusArchimyrmex
speciespiatnitzkii()

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.

Archimyrmex piatnitzkii Viana and Haedo Rossi 1957
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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: Lutetian or 47.80000 to 41.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3Argentina (Rio Negro) Ameghinoia piatnitzkyi (type locality: 138647)