Cretomyrma arnoldii

†Cretomyrma arnoldii Temporal range: Santonian, Late Cretaceous K Pa Eo Ol Mi Pl ↓ Yantardakh, Siberia, Russia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Uncertain
Genus:	Cretomyrma
Species:	†C. arnoldii
Binomial name
†Cretomyrma arnoldii Dlussky, 1975

Distribution

This taxon was described from Yantardakh, Siberia, Russia (Santonian, Late Cretaceous).

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• †arnoldii. †Cretomyrma arnoldii Dlussky, 1975: 116, fig. 128 (w.) TAIMYR AMBER (Russia: Siberia, Taimyr Peninsula, Cretaceous).
  • Status as species: Burnham, 1979: 108; Keilbach, 1982: 277; Bolton, 1995b: 166; Grimaldi, Agosti & Carpenter, 1997: 4; Barden, 2017: 2.

References

• Barden, P. 2017. Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News 24: 1-30.
• Boudinot, B.E., Perrichot, V., Chaul, J.C.M. 2020. †Camelosphecia gen. nov., lost ant-wasp intermediates from the mid-Cretaceous (Hymenoptera, Formicoidea). ZooKeys 1005, 21–55 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1005.57629).
• Dlussky, G. M. 1975a. Superfamily Formicoidea Latreille, 1802. Family Formicidae Latreille, 1802. Pp. 114-122 in: Rasnitsyn, A. P. (ed.) Hymenoptera Apocrita of Mesozoic. Tr. Paleontol. Inst. Akad. Nauk USSR 147:1-134. (page 116, fig. 128 worker described)