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Dezene Huber 🌻

New paper in The about -era giant in .

One interesting thing about this study is that the was distorted during the fossilization process. Depending on the interpretation of the actual size of the ant, different possibilities exist for how it got to what is now southern British Columbia.

More information to come in the future, I'm sure!

🔗 cambridge.org/core/journals/ca

Figure 1 from the linked paper. Quote: "Allenby Formation ant, Titanomyrma sp. UBC-BBM-PAL-2022-00001. A, photograph; B, drawing; and C, partially preserved spiracle. A, B to scale = 1 cm; C to scale = 1 mm."
Figure 2 from the linked paper. Quote: "Allenby Formation ant Titanomyrma sp. BBM-PAL-2022-00001: A, as preserved; B, compressed laterally; and C, extended lengthwise (see text)."
Mar 03, 2023, 11:33 PM·Public·Web
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