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

Belongs to Sphecomyrma according to B. E. Boudinot et al. 2020

See also Bolton 2012 and Engel and Grimaldi 2005

Sister taxa: Sphecomyrma freyi, Sphecomyrma nexa

Type specimen: AMNH NJ-1023, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is New Jersey amber, White Oaks Pit (Old Crossman's Clay Pits), which is in a Turonian delta plain amber/lignite in the Raritan Formation of New Jersey.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at New Jersey amber, White Oaks Pit (Old Crossman's Clay Pits)

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