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Kohlsimyrma laticeps

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Kohlsimyrma laticeps was named by Dlussky and Rasnitsyn (2002). Its type specimen is USNM 495879, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Old Mountains, locality 40186, which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Green River Formation of Colorado.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2002Kohlsimyrma laticeps Dlussky and Rasnitsyn p. 429 fig. 37
2012Kohlsimyrma laticeps 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()
genusKohlsimyrma
specieslaticeps

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.

†Kohlsimyrma laticeps Dlussky and Rasnitsyn 2002
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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: Bridgerian or 50.30000 to 46.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bridgerian50.3 - 46.2USA (Colorado) Kohlsimyrma laticeps (type locality: 138695)