Gerontoformica

Gerontoformica
Temporal range:
Gerontoformica cretacica holotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: incertae sedis
Genus: Gerontoformica
Nel & Perrault, 2004
Species
  • see text
Synonyms
  • Sphecomyrmodes

Gerontoformica is an extinct genus of stem-group ants. The genus contains thirteen described species known from Late Cretaceous fossils found in Asia and Europe. The species were described between 2004 and 2016, with a number of the species formerly being placed into the junior synonym genus Sphecomyrmodes.


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