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Acrometa cristata

Arachnida - Araneae - Synotaxidae

Taxonomy

Acrometa cristata was named by Petrunkevitch (1942). It is not extant. Its type locality is Baltic amber (BMNH coll), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Synonyms

Theridiometa edwardsi was named by Petrunkevitch (1942). It is not extant. Its type locality is Baltic amber (BMNH coll), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was synonymized subjectively with Acrometa cristata by Dunlop et al. (2013).
Viocurus fossilis was named by Petrunkevitch (1958). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Zoological Museum, Humboldt Univ Berlin (ZHMB MfN) Collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was synonymized subjectively with Acrometa cristata by Dunlop et al. (2013).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1942	Acrometa cristata Petrunkevitch p. 324 figs. 541-546, 76-82, 516
1942	Theridiometa edwardsi Petrunkevitch p. 328 figs. 551, 555, 103-107, 442-445, 587
1946	Acrometa cristata Petrunkevitch p. 12
1950	Acrometa cristata Petrunkevitch p. 296
1958	Viocurus fossilis Petrunkevitch p. 219 figs. 258-265
1986	Acrometa cristata Wunderlich p. 132 figs. 273-275, 348
2004	Acrometa cristata Wunderlich p. 1197 figs. 1-4a; photos 210-212
2013	Acrometa cristata Dunlop et al. p. 143
2022	Acrometa cristata Wunderlich p. 82 figs. 1-3

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
subphylum	Chelicerata	Heymons 1901
—	Euchelicerata	Weygoldt and Paulus 1979
—	Prosomapoda
—	Planaterga
—	Dekatriata

Rank	Name	Author
—	Sclerophorata	Kamenz et al. 2011
class	Arachnida	Lamarck 1801
—	Pantetrapulmonata
subclass	Tetrapulmonata	Schultz 1990
—	Serikodiastida
order	Araneae
suborder	Opisthothelae	Pocock 1892
infraorder	Araneomorphae	Smith 1902
—	Entelegynae	Simon 1893
superfamily	Araneoidea	Simon 1895
family	Synotaxidae	Simon 1894
genus	Acrometa
species	cristata

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.

†Acrometa cristata Petrunkevitch 1942

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Invalid names: Theridiometa edwardsi Petrunkevitch 1942 [synonym], Viocurus fossilis Petrunkevitch 1958 [synonym]

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
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	Acrometa cristata (123493 124205 124318 140452) Acrometa cristata, Theridiometa edwardsi (type locality: 123766) Viocurus fossilis (123757)