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Eoformica pinguis

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Liometopum pingue was named by Scudder (1877). Its type specimen is MCZ 2937, an exoskeleton (male with no wings), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Fossil Cañon, which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Utah.

It was recombined as Eoformica pingue by Carpenter (1930); it was recombined as Eoformica pinguis by Dlussky and Rasnitsyn (2002) and Bolton (2012).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1877Liometopum pingue Scudder p. 742
1878Lasius terreus Scudder pp. 747-748
1890Liometopum pingue Scudder p. 617 figs. Pl 5 fig 10
1890Lasius terreus Scudder p. 618 figs. Pl 10 fig 23
1921Eoformica eocenica Cockerell p. 36 figs. Pl 8, fig. 11.
1930Eoformica pingue Carpenter p. 17 figs. Pl 2, fig 6
2002Eoformica pinguis Dlussky and Rasnitsyn p. 425 figs. 26-31
2012Eoformica pinguis Bolton

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

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.

†Eoformica pinguis Scudder 1877
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Invalid names: Eoformica eocenica Cockerell 1921 [synonym], Lasius terreus Scudder 1878 [synonym]
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: Bridgerian or 50.30000 to 46.20000 Ma

Collections (20 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8USA (Colorado) Eoformica eocenica (105005)
Bridgerian50.3 - 46.2USA (Utah) Eoformica pingue (138648 138649 138650) Liometopum pingue (type locality: 121147)
Bridgerian50.3 - 46.2USA (Colorado) Eoformica pingue (122748 138651) Eoformica pinguis (138664 138671 138673 138674 138675 138690 138691 138692)
Bridgerian50.3 - 46.2USA (Wyoming) Eoformica pingue (138652) Lasius terreus (121306) Liometopum pingue (122090)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3USA (Montana) Eoformica pinguis (117614 138693)