Caestaranea jurassica Selden et al. 2019 (spider)

Arachnida - Araneae

Full reference: P. A. Selden, D. Y. Huang, and R. J. Garwood. 2019. New spiders (Araneae: Palpimanoidea) from the Jurassic Yanliao Biota of China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 18:137-185

Belongs to Caestaranea according to P. A. Selden et al. 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NIGP168480, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Daohugou (NIGP collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Daohugou Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Daohugou (NIGP collection)

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