Protaneuretus succineus

William Morton Wheeler, 1915 (1865-1937) · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
- ProtaneuretusPBDB
- 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.
4 occurrences of Protaneuretus succineus 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
4 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.
Protaneuretus succineus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Protaneuretus succineus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,409 taxa- Ctenobethylus goepperti3 sites
- Dolichoderus sculpturatus3 sites
- Dolichoderus tertiarius3 sites
- Eocamponotus mengei3 sites
- Formica flori3 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi3 sites
- Lasius schiefferdeckeri3 sites
- Myrmica rudis3 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea3 sites
- Paraneuretus tornquisti3 sites
- Prenolepis henschei3 sites
- Prionomyrmex longiceps3 sites
- Sussudio boreus3 sites
- Yantaromyrmex constrictus3 sites
- Yantaromyrmex geinitzi3 sites
- Agraylea spathifera2 sites
- Allacma plumosa2 sites
- Allacma plumosetosa2 sites
- Allacma setosa2 sites
- Aphaenogaster sommerfeldti2 sites
- Archaeoneureclipsis fortis2 sites
- Archaeoscelio rugosus2 sites
- Archaeotinodes angusta2 sites
- Archaeotinodes exarata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Protaneuretus succineus, 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- The Ants of the Baltic Amber3
- First records of aneuretine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Aneuretinae) in late Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine)1
Each of the 4 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 Protaneuretus succineus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- William Morton Wheeler, 1915 (1865-1937)
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Protaneuretus succineus 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 itProtaneuretus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wheeler 1915