Crematogaster
Crematogaster is an ecologically diverse genus of ants found worldwide, which are characterised by a distinctive heart-shaped gaster (abdomen), which gives them one of their common names, the Saint Valentine ant. Members of this genus are also known as cocktail ants because of their habit of raising their abdomens when alarmed. Most species are arboreal (tree-dwelling). These ants are also known as acrobat ants.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CrematogastriniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.
5 occurrences of Crematogaster on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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.
Found in
1 formation
- Mazantic Shale Formation · Simojovel Group1
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The named rock units Crematogaster has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
219 taxa- Camponotus5 sites
- Hypoponera4 sites
- Pheidole4 sites
- Tapinoma4 sites
- Azteca3 sites
- Cephalotes3 sites
- Dolichoderus3 sites
- Gnamptogenys3 sites
- Pachycondyla3 sites
- Paratrechina3 sites
- Platythyrea3 sites
- Solenopsis3 sites
- Forelius2 sites
- Linepithema2 sites
- Odontomachus2 sites
- Proceratium2 sites
- Pseudomyrmex2 sites
- Strumigenys2 sites
- Acrocyrtus1 site
- Acromyrmex1 site
- Aenictus1 site
- Alepia1 site
- Aleyrodoidea1 site
- Alticini1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Crematogaster, 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
4 references- A preliminary review of Colombia ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) preserved in copal2
- Et latet et lucet: Discoveries from the Phyletisches Museum amber and copal collection in Jena, Germany1
- The mid-Miocene Zhangpu biota reveals an outstandingly rich rainforest biome in East Asia1
- Systematic, palaeoecology, and palaeobiogeography of the insect fauna from Mexican amber1
Each of the 5 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 content2
Picture of Crematogaster
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution-NonCommercial
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCrematogastrini through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lund 1831