Arachnida - Araneae

Full reference: P. A. Selden and D. Penney. 2009. A fossil spider (Araneae: Pisauridae) of Eocene age from Horsefly, British Columbia, Canada. Contributions to Natural History 12:1269-1282

Parent taxon: Entelegynae according to I. L. F. Magalhaes et al. 2020

See also Dunlop et al. 2013 and Selden and Penney 2009

Sister taxa: Agelenidae, Amaurobiidae, Araneoidea, Cybaeidae, Deinopidae, Deinopoidea, Desidae, Dictynidae, Dictynoidea, Dionycha, Eotibiaapophysidae, Eresoidea, Gnaphosoidea, Hahniidae, Lycosoidea, Nicodamoidea, Oecobioidea, Orbiculariae, Sparassidae, Titanoecidae, Toxopidae, Uloboridae, Zodarioidea, Zoropsidae

Subtaxa: Palaeoperenethis thaleri

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Type: Palaeoperenethis thaleri

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Horsefly Mine, locality 8 (ROM collection) (Eocene of British Columbia)

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