Where: Jordan (32.1° N, 35.5° E: paleocoordinates 8.6° N, 29.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• Amber Member of the Subeihi Formation. Further west of the Zerqa river a horizon within the Amber Member or basal Jerash Member has been dated by the occurrence of the ammonite genus Knemiceras as of Albian age (Wetzel & Morton, 1959). Investigations of the sporomorph fauna from the Amber Member support these data (Al-Said & Mustafa, 1994).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, original chitin, amber

Collection methods: Repository: personal collection of Jorg Wunderlich, collected and donated by Hani Kaddumi

Primary reference: J. Wunderlich. 2008. The dominance of ancient spider families of the Araneae: Haplogynae in the Cretaceous, and the late diversification of advanced ecribellate spiders of the Entelegynae after the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary extinction events, with descriptions of new families. Beiträge zur Araneologie 5:524-674 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 148639: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.07.2013

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