Arachnida - Araneae - Eoarchaeidae
Alternative combination: Archaea hyperoptica
Full reference: A. Menge. 1854. Footnotes and taxonomic names, in Die im Bernstein befindlichen Crustaceen, Myriapoden, Arachniden und Apteren der Vorwelt. Die in Bernstein Befindlichen Organischen Reste der Vorwelt Gesammelt in Verbindung mit Mehreren Bearbeitetet und Herausgegeben 1(2):1-124
Belongs to Eoarchaea according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013
See also Eskov 1992, Forster and Platnick 1984, Menge 1854, Petrunkevitch 1950 and Wunderlich 2004
Sister taxon: Eoarchaea vidua
Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Danziger Naturkundemuseum Menge collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Germany (1 collection), Lithuania (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (3)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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