Lasius punctulatus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LasiusPBDB
- 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.
3 occurrences of Lasius punctulatus 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
3 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.
Lasius punctulatus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Lasius punctulatus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,467 taxa- Archaeotinodes angusta3 sites
- Archaeotinodes prisca3 sites
- Beraeodes pectinatus3 sites
- Carebara antiqua3 sites
- Cataglyphoides constricta3 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti3 sites
- Dolichoderus balticus3 sites
- Dolichoderus cornutus3 sites
- Dolichoderus sculpturatus3 sites
- Dolichoderus tertiarius3 sites
- Electrotrichia subtilis3 sites
- Enneamerus reticulatus3 sites
- Eocamponotus mengei3 sites
- Erotesis aequalis3 sites
- Formica flori3 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi3 sites
- Holocentropus affinis3 sites
- Holocentropus atratus3 sites
- Holocentropus curvatus3 sites
- Holocentropus incertus3 sites
- Holocentropus scissus3 sites
- Holocentropus vetustus3 sites
- Hypoponera atavia3 sites
- Lasius schiefferdeckeri3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lasius punctulatus, 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 referencesEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Lasius punctulatus
- 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 Lasius punctulatus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLasius through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mayr 1868