Calyptapis

Calyptapis is an extinct bombini genus related to bumblebees with one described species Calyptapis florissantensis. It is known only from the Late Eocene Chadronian age shales of the Florissant Formation in Colorado. The genus and species were described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in 1906.^[1][2]

Calyptapis Temporal range: Chadronian 34–34 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Calyptapis florissantensis 1908 specimen
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Apidae
Genus:	†Calyptapis
Species:	†C. florissantensis
Binomial name
†Calyptapis florissantensis Cockerell, 1906