Bradoponera meieri

Vincent Perrichot · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BradoponeraPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Bradoponera meieri on record, most of them in the Eocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
11 occurrences- Eocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Bradoponera meieri and its relatives
EoceneWhere Bradoponera meieri and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
2,382 taxa- Gesomyrmex hoernesi9 sites
- Prenolepis henschei9 sites
- Yantaromyrmex geinitzi9 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti8 sites
- Lasius schiefferdeckeri8 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea8 sites
- Tetraponera simplex8 sites
- Pachycondyla succinea7 sites
- Formica flori6 sites
- Gnamptogenys europaea6 sites
- Lype sericea6 sites
- Plagiolepis klinsmanni6 sites
- Plagiolepis kuenowi6 sites
- Prosphyracephala succini6 sites
- Yantaromyrmex samlandicus6 sites
- Archaea paradoxa5 sites
- Ceratopogon forcipiformis5 sites
- Clostes priscus5 sites
- Culicoides speciosus5 sites
- Eohelea sinuosa5 sites
- Eotemnothorax gracilis5 sites
- Hypoponera atavia5 sites
- Monogedania clunipes5 sites
- Plagiolepis solitaria5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Bradoponera meieri, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- The ant subfamilies Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae, and Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the late Eocene ambers of Europe7
- Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins4
Each of the 11 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Bradoponera meieri
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Vincent Perrichot
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bradoponera meieri was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBradoponera through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mayr 1868