Cretamygale
Appearance
Cretamygale Temporal range: Barremian,
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Holotype specimen of Cretamygale in amber | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
Clade: | Avicularioidea |
Genus: | †Cretamygale |
Species: | †C. chasei
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Binomial name | |
†Cretamygale chasei Selden, 2002
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Cretamygale is an extinct genus of spider known from the Wealden amber of the Isle of Wight, UK.[1] It was tentatively assigned to Nemesiidae.
References
- ^ Selden, Paul A. (2002). "First British Mesozoic Spider, From Cretaceous Amber Of The Isle Of Wight, Southern England". Palaeontology. 45 (5): 973–983. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00271. ISSN 0031-0239.