Myrmica schaefersi

via iDigBio · via iDigBio. 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
- MyrmicaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Myrmica schaefersi on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
2 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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 schaefersi and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Myrmica schaefersi and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Bombus (Timebombus) palaeocrater1 site
- Eremobittacus opeth1 site
- Eriotremex1 site
- Goniomma poschmanni1 site
- Myrmica nungesseri1 site
- Myrmicinae1 site
- Neuroctenus enspelensis1 site
- Paraphaenogaster1 site
- Paraphaenogaster loosi1 site
- Paraphaenogaster schindleri1 site
- Paraphaenogaster wettlauferi1 site
- Paraphaenogaster wuttkei1 site
- Tilia magnasepala1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Myrmica schaefersi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 schaefersi
- 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 schaefersi 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.
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What may have been alongside itMyrmica through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jessen 2020