Dolichoderus cornutus

Dolichoderus cornutus is an extinct species of Eocene ant in the genus Dolichoderus. Described by Mayr in 1868, the fossils were discovered in the Baltic amber, where a fossilised worker ant was only described, and it is presumed these ants existed at least 40 million years ago.^[1]

Dolichoderus cornutus Temporal range: Middle to Late Eocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Worker in Baltic amber
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Genus:	Dolichoderus
Species:	†D. cornutus
Binomial name
†Dolichoderus cornutus (Mayr, 1868)
Synonyms
Hypoclinea cornuta