Where: Botswana (22.3° S, 26.4° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° S, 12.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression, original chitin
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• This specimen is housed in the National Museum and Art Gallery, Gaborone, Botswana
Primary reference: R. J. Rayner and A. S. Dippenaar-Schoeman. 1995. A fossil spider (superfamily Lycosoidea) from the Cretaceous of Botswana. South African Journal of Science 91(2):98-100 [D. Smith/A. Kinchloe/R. Day]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34851: authorized by Dena Smith, entered by April Kinchloe on 07.10.2003, edited by Jered Karr and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Araneae indet.3 Clerck 1757 spider According to the authors, this is probably a Ctenidae or Lycosidae
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