| Crematogaster aurora | |
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| A image of the Crematogaster aurora queen ant. | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Genus: | Crematogaster |
| Species: | †C. aurora
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| Binomial name | |
| †Crematogaster aurora LaPolla & Greenwalt, 2015
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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
- ^ "Crematogaster aurora". www.antweb.org. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Smithsonian Insider – New Montana ant species emerge from 46-million-year-old rock | Smithsonian Insider". 2016-01-08. Retrieved 2023-10-25.