Myrmeciites (?) goliath

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: Myrmeciinae
Genus (collective group): †Myrmeciites
Species: †Myrmeciites (?) goliath

Name

• †Myrmeciites (?) goliath Archibald, Cover, & Moreau, 2006 pg.502, Figs. 14D and E

Type material

• Holotype: UCCIPRL-18 F-999 (part) F-1000 (counterpart) (adult queen or worker)
  • Repository: Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, Thompson-Nicola Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
    • Collector: unknown

Type locality

• Eocene, Ypresian; Eocene Okanagan Highlands; Kamloops Group, Tranquille Formation?; McAbee fossil beds, 8 km (5.0 mi) east of Cache Creek, Thompson-Nicola Regional District, British Columbia, Canada

Etymology

• "The speciÞc epithet is from the name of the biblical giant Goliath, referring to the immense size of this ant."

Distribution

Eocene

• Ypresian
• Eocene Okanagan Highlands
  • Kamloops Group, Tranquille Formation?; McAbee fossil beds, 8 km (5.0 mi) east of Cache Creek, Thompson-Nicola Regional District, British Columbia, Canada

References

Primary references

• Archibald, S.B., Cover, S. P. & Moreau, C. S. 2006. Bulldog Ants of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands and History of the Subfamily (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 99(3): 487–523. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2006)99[487:BAOTEO]2.0.CO;2. http://antbase.org/ants/publications/21067/21067.pdf.  Reference page. 

Additional references

• Archibald, S.B., Rasnitsyn, A.P., Brothers, D.J. & Mathewes, R.W. 2018. Modernisation of the Hymenoptera: ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies of the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands of western North America. The Canadian Entomologist 150(2): 205–257. doi:10.4039/tce.2017.59. ISSN 0008-347X.  Reference page. 
• Jouault, C. & Nel, A. 2022. The oldest Cenozoic ant fossil: †Tyrannomecia gen. nov. (Formicidae: Myrmeciinae) from the Palaeocene Menat Formation (France). Historical Biology 34(11): 2241–2248. doi:10.1080/08912963.2021.2010192. ISSN 0891-2963. https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-03477166/file/Menat-myrme.pdf.  Reference page.