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Fig. 5 in Deep time extinction of largest insular ant predators and the first fossil Neoponera (Formicidae: Ponerinae) from Miocene age Dominican amber

  • 1. Federated Department of Biological Sciences,New Jersey Institute of Technology,Newark,USA
  • 2. Departamento de Zoologia,Universidade Federal Do Paraná,Curitiba, Brazil
  • 3. Departamento de Biología,Escuela Politécnica Nacional,Quito,Ecuador
  • 4. Applied Biology Program,Division of Bio-Resource Sciences,Kangwon National University,Chuncheon,South Korea
  • 5. Federated Department of Biological Sciences,New Jersey Institute of Technology,Newark,USA & Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York City,USA

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Fig. 5 Size distribution of extant and extinct ant predators on Hispaniola. Principal component 1 derived from PCA of three morphometric traits across taxa. Fossil ants (yellow) exhibit larger body sizes than extant taxa (gray) on average and among extremes. Note: plot includes alate (queen) specimens, including the largest known fossil ant species, an undescribed Fulakora queen

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Published as part of Fiorentino, Gianpiero, Lattke, John, Troya, Adrian, Sosiak, Christine, Dong, Minsoo & Barden, Phillip, 2023, Deep time extinction of largest insular ant predators and the first fossil Neoponera (Formicidae: Ponerinae) from Miocene age Dominican amber, pp. 1-12 in BMC Biology (26) 21 (1) on page 7, DOI: 10.1186/s12915-022-01488-9, http://zenodo.org/record/7630129

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