Segestria secessa Scudder 1890 (tube-dwelling spider)

Arachnida - Araneae - Segestriidae

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 Segestria according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013

See also Petrunkevitch 1922 and Scudder 1890

Sister taxa: Segestria cristata, Segestria elongata, Segestria flexio, Segestria mortalis, Segestria nana, Segestria plicata, Segestria scudderi, Segestria succinei, Segestria tomentosa

Type specimen: 205, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (USGS collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale/volcaniclastic in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (2: Colorado collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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