Parameranoplus

†Parameranoplus; Temporal range: Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region
	Parameranoplus primaevus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	†Parameranoplus; Wheeler, W.M., 1915
Type species
	Parameranoplus primaevus;
Diversity
	1 fossil species; (Species Checklist)

Identification

This taxon is known from Baltic amber, Baltic Sea region, Europe (Bartonian, Middle to Late Eocene).

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

†PARAMERANOPLUS [incertae sedis in Myrmicinae: Meranoplini]
†Parameranoplus Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 69. Type-species: †Parameranoplus primaevus, by monotypy.

Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 105, Parameranoplus in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini)
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 311, Parameranoplus in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini)
Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 242, Parameranoplus in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini)
Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp. (page 81, Parameranoplus incertae sedis in Myrmicinae)
Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 617-688 (page 681, Parameranoplus in Myrmicinae, Tetramoriini)
Wheeler, W.M. 1915i. The ants of the Baltic Amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 55: 1-142. (page 69, Parameranoplus in Myrmicinae, Tetramoriini)