Paraneuretus is an extinct genus of formicid in the ant subfamily Aneuretinae known from fossils found in Asia and Europe.

[1] Baltic amber is approximately forty six million years old, having been deposited during Lutetian stage of the Middle Eocene.

There is debate on what plant family the amber was produced by, with evidence supporting relatives of either Pinus, Agathis or Sciadopitys.

[2][3] The paleoenvironment of the Eocene Baltic forests were two Paraneuretus species lived was humid temperate to subtropical islands.

The fossils were first studied by American entomologist William Morton Wheeler and described the genus plus two species in his 1915 paper The ants of the Baltic amber.

[1] Designated as the type species of the genus, P. tornquisti was described from a series of twenty two workers and two males placed into four different amber collections.

Located in the Pozharsky District, on the Pacific Coast of Russia, the fossil bearing rocks preserve possibly Priabonian plants and animals which lived in a small lake near a volcano.

[1] Workers of P. tornquisti range between 8–10 mm (0.31–0.39 in) long, with shiny black to red coloration and fine punctation on the whole exoskeleton.