Arachnida - Araneida - Chimerarachnidae

Full reference: B. Wang, J. A. Dunlop, P. A. Selden, R. J. Garwood, W. A. Shear, P. Müller, and X. J. Lei. 2018. Cretaceous arachnid Chimerarachne yingi gen. et sp. nov. illuminates spider origins. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2(4):614-622

Belongs to Chimerarachne according to D. Y. Huang et al. 2018

See also Wang et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Chimerarachne alexbeigel, Chimerarachne longiflagellum, Chimerarachne patrickmueller, Chimerarachne spiniflagellum

Type specimen: NIGP 166870, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection)

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