Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Full reference: M. S. Engel and D. A. Grimaldi. 2005. Primitive New Ants in Cretaceous Amber from Myanmar, New Jersey, and Canada (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 3485:1-24

Parent taxon: Antennoclypeata according to B. E. Boudinot et al. 2020

See also Bolton 2012 and Engel and Grimaldi 2005

Sister taxa: Brownimeciinae, Canapone, Dolichoderinae, Formicinae, Ponerinae

Subtaxa: Cananeuretus occidentalis

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Type: Cananeuretus occidentalis

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (TMP coll) (Cretaceous of Alberta)

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