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Incertogaster aurora

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Crematogaster aurora was named by LaPolla and Greenwalt (2015). Its type specimen is USNM 609595, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Spring site, Middle Fork Flathead River (Kishenehn), which is in a Lutetian lacustrine - large shale in the Kishenehn Formation of Montana.

It was recombined as Incertogaster aurora by Boudinot et al. (2024).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2015Crematogaster aurora LaPolla and Greenwalt p. 169 fig. 9
2024Incertogaster aurora Boudinot et al. p. 147

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyFormicoidea
familyFormicidae()
subfamilyMyrmicinae
genusIncertogaster
speciesaurora()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Incertogaster aurora LaPolla and Greenwalt 2015
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available