Fallomyrma transversa

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FallomyrmaPBDB
- 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.
6 occurrences of Fallomyrma transversa 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
6 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.
Fallomyrma transversa and its relatives
EoceneWhere Fallomyrma transversa and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
881 taxa- Ceratopogon5 sites
- Ceratopogon forcipiformis5 sites
- Culicoides5 sites
- Culicoides speciosus5 sites
- Eohelea sinuosa5 sites
- Formica gustawi5 sites
- Monogedania clunipes5 sites
- Prenolepis henschei5 sites
- Tetraponera simplex5 sites
- Yantaromyrmex geinitzi5 sites
- Brachypogon (Isohelea) prominulus4 sites
- Ceratopogon hennigi4 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti4 sites
- Forcipomyia4 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi4 sites
- Gnamptogenys europaea4 sites
- Lasius schiefferdeckeri4 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea4 sites
- Pachycondyla succinea4 sites
- Plagiolepis klinsmanni4 sites
- Plagiolepis kuenowi4 sites
- Prodinapsis succinalis4 sites
- Serromyia4 sites
- Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) falcata4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Fallomyrma transversa, 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- Fallomyrma gen. nov., a new myrmicine ant genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from the late Eocene European amber5
- A new ant genus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the late Eocene Rovno amber1
Each of the 6 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 Fallomyrma transversa
- 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 was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFallomyrma through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dlussky and Radchenko 2006