Forelius
Forelius is a Neotropical genus of ants in the subfamily Dolichoderinae. The genus is known from southern United States to Argentina.
April Nobile · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
- DolichoderiniPBDB
- 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.
3 occurrences of Forelius 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
3 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 the same rock
24 taxa- Azteca3 sites
- Camponotus3 sites
- Tapinoma3 sites
- Cephalotes2 sites
- Crematogaster2 sites
- Dolichoderus2 sites
- Gnamptogenys2 sites
- Hypoponera2 sites
- Linepithema2 sites
- Pachycondyla2 sites
- Paratrechina2 sites
- Pheidole2 sites
- Platythyrea2 sites
- Pseudomyrmex2 sites
- Solenopsis2 sites
- Acromyrmex1 site
- Atta1 site
- Myrmecina1 site
- Myrmicinae1 site
- Neivamyrmex iridescens1 site
- Odontomachus1 site
- Proceratium1 site
- Rogeria1 site
- Strumigenys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Forelius, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- A preliminary review of Colombia ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) preserved in copal2
- Ants from the Miocene Totolapa amber (Chiapas, Mexico), with the first record of the genus Forelius (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)1
Each of the 3 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 Forelius
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- April Nobile
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Forelius was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Forelius”
- 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 itDolichoderini through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Emery 1888