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 lubei

Name

Type material

  • Holotype: DMNS DMNH 9041; alate queen

Type locality

  • 'DMNS locality 784, Farson Fish Beds, Laney Member of the Green River Formation; Sweetwater County, Wyoming; latest early Eocene, approximately 49.5Ma'

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
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