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Cretopone magna
| †Cretopone magna Temporal range: Early Cenomanian, Late Cretaceous Burmese amber, Kachin Province, Myanmar | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Uncertain |
| Genus: | Cretopone |
| Species: | †C. magna |
| Binomial name | |
| †Cretopone magna Dlussky, 1975 | |
The taxonomomic placement of this species is uncertain and it is currently considered incertae sedis in Hymenoptera, Aculeata.
Distribution
This taxon was described from Russia (Cretaceous).
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †magna. †Cretopone magna Dlussky, 1975: 119, fig. 131; pl. 7, fig. 30 (w.) KAZAKHSTAN (Kzyl-Zhar, Cretaceous).
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 166; Barden, 2017: 2.
- Unidentifiable taxon: Grimaldi, Agosti & Carpenter, 1997: 5.
- Formicidae, subfamily incertae sedis: Barden, 2017: 2.
- Excluded from Formicidae, incertae sedis in ACULEATA: Grimaldi, et al. 1997: 7; Borysenko, 2017: 20.
Description
References
- Borysenko, L.H. 2017. Description of a new genus of primitive ants from Canadian amber, with the study of relationships between stem- and crown-group ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insecta Mundi 570: 1–57.
- Dlussky, G. M. 1975a. Superfamily Formicoidea Latreille, 1802. Family Formicidae Latreille, 1802. Pp. 114-122 in: Rasnitsyn, A. P. (ed.) Hymenoptera Apocrita of Mesozoic. Tr. Paleontol. Inst. Akad. Nauk USSR 147:1-134. (page 119, fig. 131, pl. 7, fig. 30 worker described)