Bombus cerdanyensis
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Bombus cerdanyensis Temporal range: Late Miocene |
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| B. cerdanyensis holotype | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Apidae |
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Bombus Dehon & Engel, 2014 |
| Species: | †B. cerdanyensis |
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Bombus cerdanyensis De Meulemeester, Michez, & Engel, 2014 |
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Bombus cerdanyensis is an extinct species of bumble bee in the family Apidae known from a fossil found in Europe.
Bombus cerdanyensis was described from a solitary fossil, which is a compression-impression fossil pair preserved in layers of soft sedimentary rock. Along with other well preserved insect fossils, the B. cerdanyensis specimen was collected from layers of Late Miocene terrigenous and diatomites exposed around the small town of Bellver de Cerdanya, Spain. The sediments are reported as from a deep mountain paleolake that exists about 10 million years ago. Study of the paleoflora preserved in the shales indicates the lake was around 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) in elevation in a climate that was warmer than the current conditions in the area.
At the time of study, the holotype counterpart and part were part of the paleoentomology collections housed by the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle. It was first studied by an international team of researchers headed by Manuel Dehon of the University of Mons, Belgium, with the teams 2014 type description of the species was published in the natural sciences journal PLOS One. The specific epithet cerdanyensis was coined as reference to the type locality of the Cerdanya region Spain.
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