Hypoponera

Hypoponera is a genus of ants in the subfamily Ponerinae. The genus has a worldwide distribution and is found in all continents except Antarctica, as well as lacking a presence in taiga or tundra biomes, and central Asia.

Hypoponera

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
PoneriniPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 8 of 14 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Hypoponera 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

14 occurrences

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.

Found in the same rock

2,371 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Hypoponera, 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

8 references

Each of the 14 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 Hypoponera

Credit
April Nobile
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hypoponera 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.

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 itPonerini through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Santschi 1938