Burmorchestina prominens Wunderlich 2020 (goblin spider)

Arachnida - Araneae - Oonopidae

Full reference: J. Wunderlich. 2020. Taxonomic names, in New and already described fossil spiders (Araneae) of 20 families in mid and Late Cretaceous Burmese ambers, with notes on spider phylogeny, evolution and classification. Beiträge zur Araneologie 13:22-164

Belongs to Burmorchestina according to J. Wunderlich 2020

Sister taxa: Burmorchestina acuminata, Burmorchestina biangulata, Burmorchestina bo, Burmorchestina circular, Burmorchestina gong, Burmorchestina plana, Burmorchestina pulcheroides, Burmorchestina pulchra, Burmorchestina tuberosa

Type specimen: F3293/BU/CJW, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Wunderlich collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Wunderlich collection)

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