Crematogaster aurora

Crematogaster aurora
A image of the Crematogaster aurora queen ant.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Genus: Crematogaster
Species:
†C. aurora
Binomial name
†Crematogaster aurora
LaPolla & Greenwalt, 2015

Crematogaster aurora is a valid species of myrmicine ant[1] that lived in Baltic Europe about 46 million to 43 million years ago during the Cenozoic era Eocene epoch. C. aurora has a similar look to the ant genus Acanthomyrmex and shares some similarities with the ant genus Pristomyrmex.[2] The fossil found of C. aurora is of a queen ant that is brown in coloration. It probably died by drowning in a lake approximately 46 million years ago.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Crematogaster aurora". www.antweb.org. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  2. ^ Chény, Cédric; Wang, Bo; Perrichot, Vincent (2019-09-01). "A new genus of myrmicine ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Eocene Baltic amber" (PDF). Comptes Rendus Palevol. 18 (6): 589–597. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2019.05.005. ISSN 1631-0683.
  3. ^ "Smithsonian Insider – New Montana ant species emerge from 46-million-year-old rock | Smithsonian Insider". 2016-01-08. Retrieved 2023-10-25.


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