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Eoarchaea hyperoptica

Arachnida - Araneae - Archaeidae

Taxonomy
Archaea hyperoptica was named by Menge (1854). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Danziger Naturkundemuseum Menge collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.

It was recombined as Eoarchaea hyperoptica by Forster and Platnick (1984), Wunderlich (2004), Dunlop et al. (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1854Archaea hyperoptica Menge p. 22
1950Archaea hyperoptica Petrunkevitch p. 265 figs. 4-10, 187
1984Eoarchaea hyperoptica Forster and Platnick p. 25 figs. 13-17
1992Archaea hyperoptica Eskov p. 316 fig. 4,5
2004Eoarchaea hyperoptica Wunderlich p. 784 figs. photos 71-73
2013Eoarchaea hyperoptica Dunlop et al. p. 137

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
subphylumChelicerataHeymons 1901
—EuchelicerataWeygoldt and Paulus 1979
—Prosomapoda
—Planaterga
—Dekatriata
RankNameAuthor
—SclerophorataKamenz et al. 2011
classArachnidaLamarck 1801
—Pantetrapulmonata
subclassTetrapulmonataSchultz 1990
—Serikodiastida
orderAraneae
suborderOpisthothelaePocock 1892
infraorderAraneomorphaeSmith 1902
superfamilyPalpimanoideaForster and Platnick 1984
familyArchaeidae
genusEoarchaea
specieshyperoptica()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Eoarchaea hyperoptica Menge 1854
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Grouping: solitaryc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 09:55:58
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:55:58
Source: c = class
Reference: Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Priabonian or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Lithuania Archaea hyperoptica (123977)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Poland Archaea hyperoptica (type locality: 120811)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Archaea hyperoptica (124205) Eoarchaea hyperoptica (124318 124849)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Germany (Halle) Eoarchaea hyperoptica (129228)