†Thomisus defossus Scudder 1890 (crab spider)
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Arachnida - Araneae - Thomisidae
Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1890. The Tertiary Insects of North America. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories XIII:1-734
Belongs to Thomisus according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013
See also Petrunkevitch 1922 and Scudder 1890
Sister taxa: Thomisus disjunctus, Thomisus lividus, Thomisus resutus, Thomisus sulzeri
Type specimen: 4742, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Florissant (MCZ Collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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