Paratrechina
Paratrechina is one of seven ant genera in the Prenolepis genus-group from the subfamily Formicinae. Six species are included in Paratrechina; one of which, the longhorn crazy ant, is a widespread, pantropical pest.
Erin Prado · 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
- LasiiniPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.
3 occurrences of Paratrechina 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
102 taxa- Camponotus3 sites
- Crematogaster3 sites
- Dolichoderus3 sites
- Gnamptogenys3 sites
- Hypoponera3 sites
- Pheidole3 sites
- Platythyrea3 sites
- Tapinoma3 sites
- Azteca2 sites
- Cephalotes2 sites
- Forelius2 sites
- Linepithema2 sites
- Odontomachus2 sites
- Pachycondyla2 sites
- Proceratium2 sites
- Pseudomyrmex2 sites
- Solenopsis2 sites
- Strumigenys2 sites
- Acrocyrtus1 site
- Acromyrmex1 site
- Aenictus1 site
- Amphinemura himberii1 site
- Anochetus1 site
- Anomodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Paratrechina, 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- A preliminary review of Colombia ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) preserved in copal2
- The mid-Miocene Zhangpu biota reveals an outstandingly rich rainforest biome in East Asia1
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 Paratrechina
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Erin Prado
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 itLasiini through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Motschoulsky 1863