Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Formicoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Hymenopterida
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Subordo: Apocrita
Superfamilia: Formicoidea

Familia: Formicidae
Subfamilia: †Formiciinae
Genus: Titanomyrma
Species: Titanomyrma giganteum

Name

Synonyms

Formicium giganteum Westwood, 1854

Type material

Type locality

  • '"Grube Messel" 10 km NE Darmstadt, S-Hessen, Deutschland (Grabungsstelle 16)', 'Stratum typicum: Unteres Mittel-Eozän (unteres Lutetium), Ölschieferfazies der Messel-Formation (etwa 1 m über Leithorizont [alpha])'

References

  • Archibald, S.B.; Johnson, K.R.; Mathewes, R.W.; Greenwood, D.R. 2011: Intercontinental dispersal of giant thermophilic ants across the Arctic during early Eocene hyperthermals. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B), 278(1725): 3679–3686. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0729
  • Lutz, H. 1986: Eine neue Unterfamilie der Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) aus dem mittel-eozanen Olschiefer der "Grube Messel" bei Darmstadt (Deutschland, S-Hessen). Senckenbergiana lethaea, 67(1-4): 177–218. PDF
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