Madagascar copal, Sambava area (MRAC collection) (Holocene of Madagascar)

Where: Antseranana, Madagascar (14.3° S, 50.2° E: paleocoordinates 14.3° S, 50.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts, amber

Collection methods: Repository: MRAC (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren)

Primary reference: J. Bosselaers. 2004. A new Garcorops species from Madagascar copal (Araneae: Selenopidae). Zootaxa 445:1-7 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146604: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Araneae - Selenopidae
Garcorops jadis n. sp. Bosselaers 2004 wall crab spiders
 Araneae -
Donuea collustrata Bosselaers and Dierick 2010 spider