Arachnida - Araneae - Archaeidae
Alternative combination: Afrarchaea grimaldii
Full reference: D. Penney. 2003. Afrarchaea grimaldii, a new species of Archaeidae (Araneae) in Cretaceous Burmese amber. The Journal of Arachnology 31:122-130
Belongs to Burmesarchaea according to J. Wunderlich 2017
See also Dunlop et al. 2013, Penney 2003, Wunderlich 2008 and Wunderlich 2015
Sister taxa: Burmesarchaea alissa, Burmesarchaea bilongapophyses, Burmesarchaea caudata, Burmesarchaea crassicaput, Burmesarchaea crassichelae, Burmesarchaea gibber, Burmesarchaea gibberoides, Burmesarchaea gibbosa, Burmesarchaea longicollum, Burmesarchaea propinqua, Burmesarchaea pseudogibber, Burmesarchaea pustulata, Burmesarchaea quadrata, Burmesarchaea speciosa
Type specimen: AMNH Bu–256, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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