Myrmica eocenica

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MyrmicaPBDB
- 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 Myrmica eocenica 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.
Myrmica eocenica and its relatives
EoceneWhere Myrmica eocenica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
426 taxa- Formica gustawi2 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi2 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea2 sites
- Plagiolepis kuenowi2 sites
- Prenolepis henschei2 sites
- Tetraponera simplex2 sites
- Yantaromyrmex geinitzi2 sites
- Yantaromyrmex samlandicus2 sites
- Ablator felix1 site
- Acrulia danica1 site
- Adicophasma hafniensis1 site
- Aleyrodidae1 site
- Alluaudomyia1 site
- Alluaudomyia succinea1 site
- Amelyris (Asymelyris) jutlandicus1 site
- Ampharthropelma decipiens1 site
- Ampulicomorpha succinalis1 site
- Anagroidea1 site
- Anandrus redemptus1 site
- Anaspis (Spanisa) horaki1 site
- Anomalocys lawrencei1 site
- Anthrenus (Nathrenus) electron1 site
- Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti1 site
- Aradus damzeni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Myrmica eocenica, 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- Myrmica ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in late Eocene European ambers2
- The Ants of the Genus Myrmica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Baltic and Saxonian Amber (Late Eocene)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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Myrmica eocenica
- 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 Myrmica eocenica 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMyrmica through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Radchenko et al. 2007