Arachnida - Araneae - Planarchaeidae
Alternative combination: Planarchaea oblonga
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 Baltplanarchaea according to J. Wunderlich 2025
See also Wunderlich 2017
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: F2939/BU/CJW, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber (Wunderlich collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic amber (Wunderlich collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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