Tyrannomecia inopinata

†Tyrannomecia inopinata Temporal range: Paleocene K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl Menat Formation, Menat, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmeciinae
Genus:	Tyrannomecia
Species:	†T. inopinata
Binomial name
†Tyrannomecia inopinata Jouault & Nel, 2021

Distribution

This taxon was described from Menat Formation, Menat, Puy-de-Dôme, France (Paleocene).

Castes

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  Tyrannomecia inopinata gen. et sp. nov., holotype MNHN.FA71374. Photographs. (a) head; (b) petiolar region. Scale bars = 2 mm (a), 1 mm (b).

Nomenclature

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

• †inopinata. †Tyrannomecia inopinata Jouault & Nel, 2021: 4, figs. 1, 2 (w.) FRANCE (Menat, Puy-de-Dôme, Paleocene).

Type Material

Holotype, historical quarry of ‘Noir d’Auvergne’, Menat, Puy-de-Dôme, France (middle Palaeocene (ca. 60 Ma), Menat Basin), MNHN.FA71374 (Oli 435, collection Philippe Olivier, both sides), deposited in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris.

References

• Jouault, C., Nel, A. 2021. The oldest Cenozoic ant fossil: †Tyrannomecia gen. nov. (Formicidae: Myrmeciinae) from the Palaeocene Menat Formation (France). Historical Biology, 1–8 (doi:10.1080/08912963.2021.2010192).
• Mera-Rodríguez, D., Jourdan, H., Ward, P.S., Shattuck, S., Cover, S.P., Wilson, E.O., Rabeling, C. 2023. Biogeography and evolution of social parasitism in Australian Myrmecia bulldog ants revealed by phylogenomics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 186, 107825 (doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107825).