Simplify the following text for a Grade 13 native English-speaking person.
Original: A recently reported bee fossil , of the genus Melittosphex , is considered `` an extinct lineage of pollen-collecting Apoidea , sister-group to the modern bees '' , and dates from the Lower Cretaceous ( ~ 100 mya ) .
Simplified: A recently reported bee fossil , of the genus Melittosphex , is considered `` an extinct lineage of pollen-collecting Apoidea sister to the modern bees '' , and dates from the early Cretaceous ( ~ 100 mya ) .