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Baikuris maximus
| †Baikuris maximus Temporal range: Late Albian to Early Cenomanian, Cretaceous Charentese amber, Aquitaine Basin, France | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Uncertain |
| Genus: | Baikuris |
| Species: | †B. maximus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Baikuris maximus Perrichot, 2015 ---
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Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Charentese amber, Aquitaine Basin, France (Late Albian to Early Cenomanian, Cretaceous).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †maximus. †Baikuris maximus Perrichot, 2015: 586, figs. 2, 3 (m.) CHARENTESE AMBER (France, Cretaceous).
- Status as species: Barden, 2017: 2.
Description
References
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
- Boudinot, B.E., Perrichot, V., Chaul, J.C.M. 2020. †Camelosphecia gen. nov., lost ant-wasp intermediates from the mid-Cretaceous (Hymenoptera, Formicoidea). ZooKeys 1005, 21–55 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1005.57629).
- Perrichot, V. 2015. A new species of Baikuris (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Sphecomyrminae) in mid-Cretaceous amber from France. Cretaceous Research 52, 585-590.