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Anochetus Intermedius
''Anochetus intermedius'' is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae known from two possibly Miocene fossils found on Hispaniola. ''A. intermedius'' is one of eight species in the ant genus ''Anochetus'' to have been described from fossils found in Dominican amber and is one of a number of ''Anochetus'' species found in the Greater Antilles. History and classification ''Anochetus intermedius'' is known from a solitary fossil insect which, along with two flies, three other ants, and two springtails, is an inclusion in a transparent yellow chunk of Dominican amber. The amber was produced by the extinct ''Hymenaea protera'', which formerly grew on Hispaniola, across northern South America and up to southern Mexico. The specimen was collected from an undetermined amber mine in fossil bearing rocks of the Cordillera Septentrional mountains of northern Dominican Republic. The amber dates from at least the Burdigalian stage of the Miocene, based on studying the associate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point. Because a species' potential range may be very large, determining this moment is difficult, and is usually done retrospectively. This difficulty leads to phenomena such as Lazarus taxa, where a species presumed extinct abruptly "reappears" (typically in the fossil record) after a period of apparent absence. More than 99% of all species that ever lived on Earth, amounting to over five billion species, are estimated to have died out. It is estimated that there are currently around 8.7 million species of eukaryote globally, and possibly many times more if microorganisms, like bacteria, are included. Notable extinct animal species include non-avian dinosaurs, saber-toothed cats, dodos, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natural History Museum, London
The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history. It is one of three major museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Natural History Museum's main frontage, however, is on Cromwell Road. The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 80 million items within five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, palaeontology and zoology. The museum is a centre of research specialising in taxonomy, identification and conservation. Given the age of the institution, many of the collections have great historical as well as scientific value, such as specimens collected by Charles Darwin. The museum is particularly famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons and ornate architecture—sometimes dubbed a ''cathedral of nature''—both exemplified by the large ''Diplodocus'' cast that domina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anochetus Lucidus
''Anochetus lucidus'' is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae known from two possibly Miocene fossils found on Hispaniola. ''A. lucidus'' is one of eight species in the ant genus ''Anochetus'' to have been described from fossils found in Dominican amber and is one of a number of ''Anochetus'' species found in the Greater Antillies. History and classification ''Anochetus lucidus'' is known from just two fossil insects, which were inclusions in a single yellow transparent chunk of Dominican amber, which was cut into two pieces for the study of the fossils. The amber was produced by the extinct ''Hymenaea protera'', which formerly grew on Hispaniola, across northern South America and up to southern Mexico. The specimens were collected from an undetermined amber mine in fossil bearing rocks of the Cordillera Septentrional mountains, northern Dominican Republic. The amber dates from at least the Burdigalian stage of the Miocene, based on studying the associated foss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anochetus Exstinctus
''Anochetus exstinctus'' is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae known from two possibly Miocene fossils found on Hispaniola. ''A. exstinctus'' is one of eight species in the ant genus ''Anochetus'' to have been described from fossils found in Dominican amber and is one of a number of ''Anochetus'' species found in the Greater Antillies. History and classification ''Anochetus exstinctus'' is known from three solitary fossil insects which are inclusions in yellow transparent chunks of Dominican amber. The amber was produced by the extinct ''Hymenaea protera'', which formerly grew on Hispaniola, across northern South America and up to southern Mexico. The specimens were collected from an undetermined amber mine in fossil bearing rocks of the Cordillera Septentrional mountains, northern Dominican Republic. The amber dates from at least the Burdigalian stage of the Miocene, based on studying the associated fossil foraminifera and may be as old as the Middle Eocene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anochetus Dubius
''Anochetus dubius'' is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae known from two possibly Miocene fossils found on Hispaniola. ''A. dubius'' is one of eight species in the ant genus ''Anochetus'' to have been described from fossils found in Dominican amber and is one of a number of ''Anochetus'' species found in the Greater Antillies. History and classification ''Anochetus dubius'' is known from the solitary fossil insect which, along with two soil particles, is an inclusion in a transparent yellow chunk of Dominican amber. The amber was produced by the extinct ''Hymenaea protera'', which formerly grew on Hispaniola, across northern South America, and up to southern Mexico. The specimen was collected from an undetermined amber mine in fossil-bearing rocks of the Cordillera Septentrional mountains of northern Dominican Republic. The amber dates from at least the Burdigalian stage of the Miocene, based on studying the associated fossil foraminifera, and may be as old as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anochetus Conisquamis
''Anochetus conisquamis'' is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae known from one possibly Miocene fossil found on Hispaniola. ''A. conisquamis'' is one of eight species in the ant genus ''Anochetus'' to have been described from fossils found in Dominican amber and is one of a number of ''Anochetus'' species found in the Greater Antilles. History and classification ''Anochetus conisquamis'' is known from a solitary fossil insect which, along with two Kalotermitid termites and two flies, is an inclusion in a transparent yellow chunk of Dominican amber. The amber was produced by the extinct ''Hymenaea protera'', which formerly grew on Hispaniola, across northern South America and up to southern Mexico. The specimen was collected from an undetermined amber mine in fossil-bearing rocks of the Cordillera Septentrional mountains of northern Dominican Republic. The amber dates from at least the Burdigalian stage of the Miocene, based on studying the associated fossil fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anochetus Ambiguus
''Anochetus ambiguus'' is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae known from two possibly Miocene fossils found on Hispaniola. ''A. ambiguus'' is one of eight species in the ant genus ''Anochetus'' to have been described from fossils found in Dominican amber and is one of a number of ''Anochetus'' species found in the Greater Antillies. History and classification ''Anochetus ambiguus'' is known from two solitary fossil insects which, are inclusions in dark yellow transparent chunks of Dominican amber. The amber was produced by the extinct ''Hymenaea protera'', which formerly grew on Hispaniola, across northern South America and up to southern Mexico. The specimens were collected from an undetermined amber mine in fossil bearing rocks of the Cordillera Septentrional mountains, northern Dominican Republic. The amber dates from at least the Burdigalian stage of the Miocene, based on studying the associated fossil foraminifera and may be as old as the Middle Eocene, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anochetus Brevidentatus
''Anochetus brevidentatus'' is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae known from two possibly Miocene fossils found on Hispaniola. ''A. ambiguus'' is one of eight species in the ant genus ''Anochetus'' to have been described from fossils found in Dominican amber and is one of a number of ''Anochetus'' species found in the Greater Antillies. History and classification ''Anochetus brevidentatus'' is known from two solitary fossil insects which are inclusions in transparent chunks of Dominican amber. The amber was produced by the extinct ''Hymenaea protera'', which formerly grew on Hispaniola, across northern South America, and up to southern Mexico. The type specimen was collected from the La Toca Mine near las Aguitas, while the second specimen is from an undetermined amber mine. Both are from fossil bearing rocks of the Cordillera Septentrional mountains in the northern Dominican Republic. The amber dates from at least the Burdigalian stage of the Miocene, based o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anochetus Corayi
''Anochetus corayi'' is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae known from one possibly Miocene fossil found on Hispaniola. ''A. corayi'' is one of eight species in the ant genus ''Anochetus'' to have been described from fossils found in Dominican amber and is one of a number of ''Anochetus'' species found in the Greater Antillies. History and classification ''Anochetus corayi'' is known from a solitary fossil insect which is an inclusion in a transparent yellow chunk of Dominican amber. The amber was produced by the extinct ''Hymenaea protera'', which formerly grew on Hispaniola, across northern South America and up to southern Mexico. The specimen was collected from an unspecified amber mine in fossil bearing rocks of the Cordillera Septentrional mountains of northern Dominican Republic. Associated fossil foraminifera date the amber from at least the Burdigalian stage of the Miocene, the associated fossil coccoliths may be as old as the Middle Eocene. This age ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the Roman Republic it became the dominant language in the Italian region and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. Even after the fall of Western Rome, Latin remained the common language of international communication, science, scholarship and academia in Europe until well into the 18th century, when other regional vernaculars (including its own descendants, the Romance languages) supplanted it in common academic and political usage, and it eventually became a dead language in the modern linguistic definition. Latin is a highly inflected language, with three distinct genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), six or seven noun cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, and vocative), five declensions, four verb conjuga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Specific Name (zoology)
In zoological nomenclature, the specific name (also specific epithet or species epithet) is the second part (the second name) within the scientific name of a species (a binomen). The first part of the name of a species is the name of the genus or the generic name. The rules and regulations governing the giving of a new species name are explained in the article species description. For example, the scientific name for humans is ''Homo sapiens'', which is the species name, consisting of two names: ''Homo'' is the " generic name" (the name of the genus) and ''sapiens'' is the "specific name". Historically, ''specific name'' referred to the combination of what are now called the generic and specific names. Carl Linnaeus, who formalized binomial nomenclature, made explicit distinctions between specific, generic, and trivial names. The generic name was that of the genus, the first in the binomial, the trivial name was the second name in the binomial, and the specific the proper term for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type (biology)
In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached. In other words, a type is an example that serves to anchor or centralizes the defining features of that particular taxon. In older usage (pre-1900 in botany), a type was a taxon rather than a specimen. A taxon is a scientifically named grouping of organisms with other like organisms, a set that includes some organisms and excludes others, based on a detailed published description (for example a species description) and on the provision of type material, which is usually available to scientists for examination in a major museum research collection, or similar institution. Type specimen According to a precise set of rules laid down in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) and the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN), the scientific name of every taxon is almost al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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