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Formicium

Formicium
Temporal range: Lutetian,
Formicium mirabile type illustration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: †Formiciinae
Genus: †Formicium
Westwood, 1854
Type species
Formicium brodiei
Westwood, 1854
Other species
  • Formicium berryi (Carpenter, 1929)
  • Formicium mirabile (Cockerell, 1920)
Synonyms
  • Eoponera berryi Carpenter, 1929
  • Megapterites mirabilis Cockerell, 1920

Formicium is an extinct collective genus of giant ants in the Formicidae subfamily Formiciinae. The genus currently contains three species, Formicium berryi, Formicium brodiei, and Formicium mirabile. All three species were described from Eocene aged sediments.[1]

  1. ^ 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): 3679–86. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0729. PMC 3203508. PMID 21543354.

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