Burmorchestina plana Wunderlich 2017 (goblin spider)

Arachnida - Araneae - Oonopidae

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 Burmorchestina according to T. Y. Jiang and S. Q. Li 2021

See also Wunderlich 2017

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

Type specimen: F2920/BU/CJW, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Wunderlich coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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