Atta praecursor Frič, 1901 incertae sedis in genus, unidentifiable, ichnotaxon
Atta praecursor Frič, 1901: 167, fig. 8 (damaged leaf) Second fig. 8 in article referred to as fig. 9 in the description. CZECH REPUBLIC (Cretaceous, ichnospecies).
  • [Note 1: ichnotaxon; a damaged leaf, supposedly caused by an attine ant (extremely unlikely as Cretaceous is far too early for attines, and attines are New World taxa).]
  • [Note 2: leaf damage the result of tenthredinid larva, megachiline bee, or other (Handlirsch, 1908: 672; Baroni Urbani, 1980b: 4).]
  • [Note 3: leaf damage not a bee trace fossil (Michez et al., 2012: 105).]
  • Unidentifiable taxon; incertae sedis in Atta.
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