Palaeoleptoneta calcar Wunderlich 2012 (leptonetid spider)

Arachnida - Araneae - Leptonetidae

Full reference: J. Wunderlich. 2012. On the fossil spider (Araneae) fauna in Cretaeous ambers, with descriptions of new taxa from Myanmar (Burma) and Jordan, and on the relationships of the superfamily Leptonetoidea. Beiträge zur Araneologie 7:157-232

Belongs to Palaeoleptoneta according to J. Wunderlich 2012

Sister taxa: Palaeoleptoneta acus, Palaeoleptoneta baculum, Palaeoleptoneta crus, Palaeoleptoneta fissura, Palaeoleptoneta laticymbium, Palaeoleptoneta nils, Palaeoleptoneta thilo

Type specimen: F2350/AR/CJW. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Wunderlich coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Wunderlich coll)

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