Eurymyrmex
| Eurymyrmex | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Eurymyrmex Zhang, Sun & Zhang, 1994 |
| Species: | †E. geologicus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Eurymyrmex geologicus Zhang, Sun & Zhang, 1994
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Eurymyrmex is an extinct genus of ant in the Formicidae subfamily Dolichoderinae. The genus contains a single described species Eurymyrmex geologicus. It was described in 1994, where the first fossils of the ant were found in China.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Zhang, J., Sun, B. ; Zhang, X. 1994. Miocene insects and spiders from Shanwang, Shandong. Beijing: Science Press, v + 298 pp.: 298pp (page 167, Eurymyrmex as genus; Eurymyrmex in Dolichoderinae)