Palaeoleptoneta fissura Wunderlich 2021 (leptonetid spider)

Arachnida - Araneae - Leptonetidae

Full reference: J. Wunderlich. 2021. Taxonomic names, in Descriptions of new fossil spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) in Late (Mid) Cretaceous Burmese amber with focus on the superfamilies Palpimanoidea and Deinopoidea and members of the RTA-clade, as well as remarks on palaeobehaviour, palaeofauna, taxonomy and phylogenetics. Beiträge zur Araneologie 14:25-262

Belongs to Palaeoleptoneta according to J. Wunderlich 2021

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

Type specimen: F3608/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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