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Dolichoderus cornutus

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†Dolichoderus cornutus
Temporal range: Middle to Late Eocene
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Baltic amber
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hymenoptera
Family:
Formicidae
Subfamily:
Dolichoderinae
Genus:
Dolichoderus
Species:
†D. cornutus
Binomial name
†Dolichoderus cornutus
(Mayr, 1868)

Dolichoderus cornutus is an extinct species of Eocene ant in the genus Dolichoderus. Described by Mayr in 1868, the fossils were discovered in the Baltic amber, where a fossilised worker ant was only described, and it is presumed these ants existed at least 40 million years ago.[1]

References

  1. ^ Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitr. Naturkd. Preuss. 1: 1-102 (page 61, pl. 3, fig. 52 worker described)
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