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Ypresiomyrma rebekkae
| †Ypresiomyrma rebekkae Temporal range: earliest Ypresian, Eocene Ølst and Fur Formations, Stolleklint and Manhøj, Isle of Fur, Denmark | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmeciinae |
| Genus: | Ypresiomyrma |
| Species: | †Y. rebekkae |
| Binomial name | |
| †Ypresiomyrma rebekkae (Rust & Andersen, 1999)
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Identification
Distribution
This taxon was described from Ølst and Fur Formations, Stolleklint and Manhøj, Isle of Fur, Denmark (earliest Ypresian, Eocene).
Castes
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- †rebekkae. †Pachycondyla rebekkae Rust & Andersen, 1999: 333, figs. 1-6 (q.m.) DENMARK (Paleocene-Eocene). Combination in †Ypresiomyrma: Archibald, Cover & Moreau, 2006: 493.
Description
References
- Rust, J.; Andersen, N. M. 1999. Giant ants from the Paleogene of Denmark with a discussion of the fossil history and early evolution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 125: 331-348.
- Archibald, S.B., Cover, S.P. & Moreau, C.S. 2006. Bulldog ants of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands and history of the subfamily. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 99: 486-523.
- Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
- Barden, P., Engel, M.S. 2020. Fossil social insects. Encyclopedia of Social Insects, Springer, Cham (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-90306-4_45-1).
- 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).