Bradoponera similis

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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.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Bradoponera similis 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
1 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 similis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Bradoponera similis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
191 taxa- Amilenus deltshevi1 site
- Anaphothrips fuscicaudeus1 site
- Anaphothrips parallelus1 site
- Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti1 site
- Apodendrothrips major1 site
- Archaea bitterfeldensis1 site
- Archankothrips medisetosus1 site
- Astigmaton ichneumonoides1 site
- Balticoroma serafinorum1 site
- Barthelius pumilus1 site
- Bathymyza longirostris1 site
- Bitterfeldopterix lanceata1 site
- Brachypogon (Brachypogon) miocaenicus1 site
- Bradoponera meieri1 site
- Caddo dentipalpus1 site
- Ceratopogon1 site
- Ceratopogon bitterfeldi1 site
- Ceratopogon forcipiformis1 site
- Ceratopogon hennigi1 site
- Ceratopogon miocaenicus1 site
- Ceratopogon subeminens1 site
- Ceratopogon succinicola1 site
- Clostes priscus1 site
- Conoformica bitterfeldiana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Bradoponera similis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Bradoponera similis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Bradoponera similis 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.
Keep going
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. Dlussky 2009