†Cariridris bipetiolata
Brandão & Martins-Neto, 1990
valid
†Cariridris bipetiolata
Brandão & Martins-Neto, 1990:
201, figs. 1-3 (q.)
BRAZIL (Crato Formation).
Primary type information:
Type-locality: Tatajuba Farm, Santana do Cariri (07º11’S, 39º44’W), Ceara state, Brasil. M. A. Vulcano pers. coll. (#293). Stratum-typicum: Crato Member, lower unit of the Santana formation (Lower-Cretaceous) Upper Aptian, Araripe Basin, Northeast Brasil
- Excluded from Formicidae, incertae sedis in Aculeata: Grimaldi et al., 1997: 7
- †Cariridris bipetiolata in Formicidae: Myrmeciinae: Brandão & Martins-Neto, 1990; Osten, 2007: 353 (based on holotype characters and on two better preserved specimens deposited at Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart (SNMS), plate 15m, specimen SMNS66565).
Citations
- Brandão, C. R. F.; Martins-Neto, R. G. 1990 ("1989"). [Untitled. Cariridris Brandão & Martins-Neto, new genus. Cariridris bipetiolata Brandão & Martins-Neto, new species.]. Pp. 201-202 in: Brandão, C. R. F.; Martins-Neto, R. G.; Vulcano, M. A. 1990. The earliest known fossil ant (first southern hemisphere Mesozoic record) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Psyche (Cambridge) 96:195-208. PDF
- Grimaldi, D.; Agosti, D.; Carpenter, J. M. 1997. New and rediscovered primitive ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey, and their phylogenetic relationships. American Museum Novitates 3208:1-43. PDF
- Osten, T. 2007. Hymenoptera: Bees, wasps and ants. Pp. 350-365 in: Martill, D. M.; Bechly, G.; Loveridge R. F. (eds.) 2007. The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil: Window into an Ancient World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 625 pp. PDF