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Formicium berryi

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Eoponera berryi was named by Carpenter (1929). Its type specimen is USNM 80825, a forewing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Puryear, Henry County, which is in a Bartonian pond claystone in the Cockfield Formation of Tennessee.

It was recombined as Formicium berryi by Lutz (1986), Archibald et al. (2011) and Bolton (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1929Eoponera berryi Carpenter p. 301 fig. 1
1986Formicium berryi Lutz p. 187 fig. 2
2011Formicium berryi Archibald et al.
2012Formicium berryi Bolton

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
Aculeata()
superfamilyFormicoidea
familyFormicidae()
subfamilyFormiciinae
genusFormicium
speciesberryi()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Formicium berryi Carpenter 1929
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Bartonian or 41.30000 to 38.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0USA (Tennessee) Eoponera berryi (type locality: 138891)