Yantaromyrmex constrictus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- YantaromyrmexPBDB
- 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.
12 occurrences of Yantaromyrmex constrictus 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
12 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.
Yantaromyrmex constrictus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Yantaromyrmex constrictus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
2,307 taxa- Prenolepis henschei11 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi10 sites
- Yantaromyrmex geinitzi10 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti9 sites
- Lasius schiefferdeckeri9 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea9 sites
- Formica flori7 sites
- Pachycondyla succinea7 sites
- Plagiolepis klinsmanni7 sites
- Tetraponera ocellata7 sites
- Tetraponera simplex7 sites
- Dolichoderus tertiarius6 sites
- Eohelea sinuosa6 sites
- Monogedania clunipes6 sites
- Plagiolepis kuenowi6 sites
- Yantaromyrmex samlandicus6 sites
- Bradoponera meieri5 sites
- Ceratopogon5 sites
- Ceratopogon forcipiformis5 sites
- Culicoides speciosus5 sites
- Eotemnothorax gracilis5 sites
- Erotesis aequalis5 sites
- Formica gustawi5 sites
- Gnamptogenys europaea5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Yantaromyrmex constrictus, 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
4 references- Yantaromyrmex gen. n. – a new ant genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Late Eocene ambers of Europe5
- The Ants of the Baltic Amber3
- Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins3
- Occurrence of ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) and aphid (Homoptera, Aphidinea) syninclusions in Saxonian and Rovno ambers1
Each of the 12 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 Yantaromyrmex constrictus
- 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 Yantaromyrmex constrictus 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 itYantaromyrmex through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mayr 1868)