Titanomyrma gigantea

†Titanomyrma gigantea holotype

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Formicoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Formicoidea

Familia: Formicidae
Subfamilia: †Formiciinae
Genus: †Titanomyrma
Species: †Titanomyrma gigantea

Name

• †Titanomyrma gigantea (Lutz) Archibald, Johnson, Mathewes, & Greenwood, 2011

Synonymy

• †Formicium giganteum Lutz, 1986 190, figs. 3-8 ♀ queen (protonym)

• †Titanomyrma giganteum (Lutz, 1986) Archibald, Johnson, Mathewes, & Greenwood, 2011

Type material

• Holotype: SMF MeI 998 (alate queen)
  • Repository: Forschungsstation Grube Messel, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Messel, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse, Germany

• Paratypes SMF MeI 45, 52, 104 A + B, 291, 292, 294, 318, 334, 336, 405, 410, 426, 591, 984, 986, 988, 992, 995, 999, 1003, 1017, 1219, 1220, 1221
  • Repository: Forschungsstation Grube Messel, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Messel, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse, Germany

• ⧼Referred material⧽ SMF MeI 43, 44, 46-51, 54, 98, 99, 101-103, 120, 186, 293, 315, 316, 329, 331-333, 337, 338, 341-346, 349, 350, 398, 399, 403, 404, 406-409, 412, 425, 489, 498, 541, 592, 597, 601, 602, 906, 932?, 977, 980-982, 985, 987, 990, 993, 994, 996-998, 1000-1002, 1005, 1007, 1009-1012, 1017, 1020, 1222, 1223.
  • Repository: Forschungsstation Grube Messel, Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Messel, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse, Germany

• ⧼Referred material⧽: HLMD Me7194
  • Repository: Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Rhine-Main-Area, Hesse, Germany

• ⧼Referred material⧽: LNK 27♀ und 2♂, (not numbered).
  • Repository: Landessammlungen für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Type locality

• Eocene, Lutetian; Messel Formation; approximately 1 m (3.3 ft) above the guiding horizon α, Grube Messel (Grabungsstelle 16), Messel, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse, Germany

Etymology

• "giganteus, -a, -um (lat.) = gigantic"

Distribution

Eocene

• Lutetian
  • Messel Formation; approximately 1 m (3.3 ft) above the guiding horizon α, Grube Messel (Grabungsstelle 16), Messel, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse, Germany

References

• Lutz, H. 1986. Eine neue Unterfamilie der Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) aus dem mittel-eozänen Ölschiefer der „Grube Messel“ bei Darmstadt (Deutschland, S-Hessen). Senckenbergiana lethaea 67(1-4): 177–218. PDF. Reference page. 
• Archibald, S.B., Johnson, K.R., Mathewes, R.W. & Greenwood, D.R. 2011. Intercontinental dispersal of giant thermophilic ants across the Arctic during early Eocene hyperthermals. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) 278(1725): 3679–3686. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0729 Reference page.