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Burmomyrma ✝

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Burmomyrma is an extinct genus of ant in the formicid subfamily Aneuretinae, and is currently unplaced in the either of the tribes of that subfamily. The genus contains a single described species, Burmomyrma rossi. Burmomyrma is known from a single Middle Cretaceous fossil which was found in Asia.

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4677407	https://www.gbif.org/species/4677407
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	213461	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=213461

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Formicidae : Burmomyrma

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Falsiformicidae : Burmomyrma

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	Chrysidoidea	Latreille 1802
family	Falsiformicidae	Rasnitsyn 1975
genus	Burmomyrma	Dlussky 1996

Scientific Name

Burmomyrma Dlussky, 1996

Name Published In

Paleontol Zh 3, Iyul'-Sentyabr'

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Burmomyrma	genus	belongs to Formicidae	stated with evidence	Dlussky, 1996
Burmomyrma	genus	belongs to Aneuretinae	stated with evidence	Bolton, 2003
Burmomyrma	genus	belongs to Formicidae	stated with evidence	Barden, 2017
Burmomyrma	genus	belongs to Falsiformicidae	stated with evidence	Lucena and Melo, 2018

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

99.6 - 93.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

99.6 - 93.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

G. M. Dlussky. 1996. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Burmese amber. Paleontological Journal 30:449-454

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Burmomyrma rossi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1996	Burmomyrma Dlussky p. 453
2003	Burmomyrma Bolton p. 18
2012	Burmomyrma Bolton
2017	Burmomyrma Barden p. 12
2018	Burmomyrma Lucena and Melo p. 279

References

Dlussky G. M. (1996) Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Burmese amber, Paleontological Journal 30, 449-454

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

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

Barden P. (2017) Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages, Myrmecological News 24, 1-30

Lucena D. A. A., Melo G. A. R. (2018) Chrysidid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chrysididae) from Cretaceous Burmese amber: Phylogenetic affinities and classification, Cretaceous Research 89, 279-291

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

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

original work (title/other) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Paleontol Zh 3, Iyul'-Sentyabr' - 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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