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Platythyrea

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Description

Platythyrea is a genus of predaceous ants in the subfamily Ponerinae and the sole member of the tribe Platythyreini.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platythyrea, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1326298	https://www.gbif.org/species/1326298
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	152103	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=152103

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Formicidae : Platythyrea

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Formicidae : Platythyrea

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
order	Hymenoptera	Linnaeus 1758
-	Unicalcarida	Schulmeister et al. 2002
suborder	Vespina
suborder	Apocrita	Gerstaecker 1867
-	Aculeata
superfamily	Vespoidea	Latreille 1802
family	Formicidae	Latreille 1802
subfamily	Ponerinae	Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau 1835
tribe	Platythyreini	Emery 1901
genus	Platythyrea	Roger 1863

Scientific Name

Platythyrea Roger, 1863

Name Published In

Roger, Julius. 1863. Die neu aufgeführten Gattungen und Arten meines Formiciden-Verzeichnisses. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7: 131-214.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Platythyrea	genus	belongs to Formicidae	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Platythyrea	genus	belongs to Platythyreini	stated with evidence	Bolton, 2003
Platythyrea	genus	belongs to Ponerinae	stated with evidence	Aria et al., 2011
Platythyrea	genus	belongs to Platythyreini	stated with evidence	Bolton, 2012

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (25%)

First Recorded Appearance

55.8 - 48.6 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

F. M. Carpenter. 1992. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4:1-655

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platythyrea

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Platythyrea angusta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea arnoldi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea arthuri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea bicuspis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea bidentata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea brunnipes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea clypeata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea conradti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea cooperi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea cribrinodis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea crucheti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea cyriluli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea dentata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Platythyrea dentinodis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea dlusskyi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Platythyrea exigua species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea frontalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea gracillima species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea inermis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea lamellosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea matopoensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea meinerti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea micans species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea mocquerysi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea modesta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea monodi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea nicobarensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea occidentalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea parallela species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Platythyrea primaeva ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	38.0 Ma Eocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Platythyrea prizo species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea procera ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Platythyrea pruinosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea pumilio ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Platythyrea quadridenta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea ruficornis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea sagei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea scalprum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Platythyrea schultzei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea sinuata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea strenua species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea tenuis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea tricuspidata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea turneri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea viehmeyeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea wroughtoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Platythyrea zodion species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1863	Platythyrea Roger p. 172
1992	Platythyrea Carpenter
2003	Platythyrea Bolton p. 45
2011	Platythyrea Aria et al. p. 55
2012	Platythyrea Bolton

References

Carpenter F. M. (1992) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4, 1-655

Bolton B. (2003) Synopsis and classification of Formicidae, Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71, 1-370

Aria C., Perrichot V., et al (2011) Fossil Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Early Eocene amber of France, Zootaxa 2870, 53-62

Bolton B. (2012) , Catalogue of Ants of the World

Berlin. Ent. Z., 7 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000 unverified - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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