Dolichoderus cornutus

Dolichoderus cornutus; Temporal range: Middle to Late Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Worker in Baltic amber
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Genus:	Dolichoderus
Species:	†D. cornutus
Binomial name
	†Dolichoderus cornutus; (Mayr, 1868)
Synonyms
	Hypoclinea cornuta;

Dolichoderus cornutus is an extinct species of Eocene ant in the genus Dolichoderus. Described by Mayr in 1868, the fossils were discovered in the Baltic amber, where a fossilised worker ant was only described, and it is presumed these ants existed at least 40 million years ago.^[1]

References[]

^ Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitr. Naturkd. Preuss. 1: 1-102 (page 61, pl. 3, fig. 52 worker described)

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[1] Mayr, G. 1868c. Die Ameisen des baltischen Bernsteins. Beitr. Naturkd. Preuss. 1: 1-102 (page 61, pl. 3, fig. 52 worker described)

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