Crematogaster aurora

{{Short description|Extinct species of ant}}

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| image = Crematogaster aurora USNM609595 profile.jpg

| image_caption = A image of the Crematogaster aurora queen ant.

| extinct = yes

| genus = Crematogaster

| species = aurora

| authority = LaPolla & Greenwalt, 2015

}}

Crematogaster aurora is a valid species of myrmicine ant{{Cite web |title=Crematogaster aurora |url=https://www.antweb.org/images.do?genus=crematogaster&species=aurora&rank=species&project=fossilants |access-date=2023-10-25 |website=www.antweb.org |language=en}} 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.{{Cite journal |last=Chény |first=Cédric |last2=Wang |first2=Bo |last3=Perrichot |first3=Vincent |date=2019-09-01 |title=A new genus of myrmicine ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Eocene Baltic amber |url=https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-02296266/file/1-s2.0-S1631068319301216-main.pdf |journal=Comptes Rendus Palevol |volume=18 |issue=6 |pages=589–597 |doi=10.1016/j.crpv.2019.05.005 |issn=1631-0683|doi-access=free }} 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.{{Cite web |date=2016-01-08 |title=Smithsonian Insider – New Montana ant species emerge from 46-million-year-old rock {{!}} Smithsonian Insider |url=https://insider.si.edu/2016/01/new-montana-ant-species-emerge-from-46-million-year-old-rock/ |access-date=2023-10-25 |language=en-US}}