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Aphaenogaster longaeva
''Aphaenogaster longaeva'' is an extinct species of ant in formicid subfamily Myrmicinae known from a solitary Eocene or Oligocene fossil found in North America. ''A. longaeva'' was one of five insect species described by the paleoentomologist Samuel Hubbard Scudder in an 1877 paper.
==History and classification==
''Aphaenogaster longaeva'' is known from a single insect which is a compression-impression fossil preserved in fine shale of the Quesnel beds, possibly Fraser Formation, near Quesnel, British Columbia.〔 During the initial surveys of the area by George Mercer Dawson, clay silt and sand outcrops were identified along the banks of the Fraser River, and a small sampling was performed by Dawson. The fossils were mostly of plants such as beech, walnut, and poplar. Scudder in 1890 notes that the fossil insects collected represented twenty-five species, dominated by Hymenoptera and Diptera specimens, with a single Coleopteran fossil found. Dawson tentatively assigned the Quesnel fossils a Miocene age based on the floral similarity to fossil sites of Alaska.〔 The age of the site has been changed at least twice since the original description, with the fossils being listed as Eocene in age in a 1978 paper by Laurie Burnham.〔 Most recently the site has a suggested age of Oligocene in a 2000 paper on the fossils of nearby Quilchena, British Columbia.
At the time of description the species was known from a single fragmentary fossil and its less detailed counterpart. The part side of the holotype was deposited in collections of the Canadian Geological Survey while the counterpart was placed in the Museum of Comparative Zoology paleontology collections at Harvard University. Along with a number of other insect type specimens, the ''A. longaeva'' holotype counterpart is part of the Samuel Hubbard Scudder insect collection donated to Harvard in 1902. The fossil was first studied by paleoentomologist Scudder with his 1877 type description of the new species being published in an addendum to Dawson's ''Report of Progress, Geological Survey of Canada, 1875–76''. The etymology for the specific epithet ''longaeva'' was not given with the type description. ''A. longaeva'' was one of five Formicidae species which Scudder described in the paper. Placement of the species into ''Aphaenogaster'' was based on the very similar vein structure and shape of the discoidal cell between ''A. longaeva'' and ''"Aphaenogaster" berendti'', described from Baltic amber.〔 However the latter species was subsequently moved to the genus ''Stenamma'' as ''Stenamma berendti''. Due to the incomplete nature of the type specimens used in Scudder's descriptions, four of the five species from Quesnel were considered to be of uncertain genus by Frank M. Carpenter in his review of North American ant fossils, with ''A. longaeva'' listed as "(Myrmicinae) ''longaeva''".
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