Crematogaster aurora

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]

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