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Species: †Platythyrea primaeva   Wheeler, 1915 


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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

†Platythyrea primaeva Wheeler, 1915i PDF: 36, fig. 7 (w.q.) BALTIC AMBER (Eocene). AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

See also: Dlussky, 2009 PDF: 1060.

Distribution Notes:

Baltic amber; middle to Late Eocene (34-42 Ma).

Comments:

One type specimen currently in MCZC (PALE-4513), belonging to Klebs collection of the GZG, Göttingen, Germany.

Taxonomic Notes:

See also Burnham, 1978: 110; Bolton, 1995: 337; Dlussky, 1997: 61, fig. 1e.

References:

  • Wheeler W. M. 1915. The ants of the Baltic amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg, 55: 1-142.
  • Burnham L. 1978. Survey of social insects in the fossil record. Psyche, 85(1): 85-133.
  • Dlussky G. M. 1997. Genera of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Baltic amber. Paleontological Journal, 31(6): 616-627.
  • Dlussky G. M. 2009. The ant subfamilies Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae, and Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Late Eocene ambers of Europe. Paleontological Journal, 43(9): 1043-1086.


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