Arachnida - Araneae - Pholcochyroceridae
Full reference: J. Wunderlich. 2017. New and rare fossil spiders (Araneae) in mid Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Burma), including the description of new extinct families of the suborders Mesothelae and Opisthothelae, as well as notes on the taxonomy, the evolution and the biogeography of the Mesothelae. Ten Papers on Fossil and Extant Spiders (Araneae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 10:72-279
Belongs to Pholcochyrocer according to J. Wunderlich 2017
Sister taxa: Pholcochyrocer baculum, Pholcochyrocer calidum, Pholcochyrocer guttulaeque, Pholcochyrocer pecten, Pholcochyrocer vermiculus
Type specimen: F3035/BU/CJW, an exoskeleton. 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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