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Palaeothele montceauensis

Arachnida - Araneae - Palaeothelidae

Taxonomy
Eothele montceauensis was named by Selden (1996) [Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Autun]. Its type specimen is MHNA 51961, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Montceau-les-Mines (Sotty MNHN/MHNA coll), which is in a Stephanian B deltaic mudstone in France. It is the type species of Eothele, Palaeothele.

It was recombined as Palaeothele montceauensis by Selden (2000), Dunlop et al. (2013) and Selden (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1996Eothele montceauensis Selden p. 587 figs. 1-4
2000Palaeothele montceauensis Selden p. 292
2013Palaeothele montceauensis Dunlop et al. p. 127
2021Palaeothele montceauensis Selden p. 334

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
subphylumChelicerataHeymons 1901
—EuchelicerataWeygoldt and Paulus 1979
—Prosomapoda
—Planaterga
RankNameAuthor
—Dekatriata
—SclerophorataKamenz et al. 2011
classArachnidaLamarck 1801
—Pantetrapulmonata
subclassTetrapulmonataSchultz 1990
—Serikodiastida
orderAraneae
suborderMesothelae
familyPalaeothelidae
genusPalaeothele
speciesmontceauensis()

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.

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Diagnosis
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