A Triassic spider from Italy

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Issue Date
2013-01-25Author
Dalla Vecchia, F.M.
Selden, Paul A.
Publisher
Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Paleobiologii
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Article
Article Version
Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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A new fossil spider from the Triassic (Norian) Dolomia di Forni Formation of Friuli, Italy, is described as Friularachne
rigoi gen. et sp. nov. This find brings the number of known Triassic spider species to four. The specimen is an adult male, and consideration of various features, including enlarged, porrect chelicerae, subequal leg length, and presence of a dorsal scutum, point to its identity as a possible member of the mygalomorph superfamily Atypoidea. If correct, this would extend the geological record of the superfamily some 98–115 Ma from the late Early Cretaceous (?Albian, c. 100–112 Ma) to the late middle–early late Norian (c. 210–215 Ma).
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Citation
Vecchia, F., & Selden, P. (2013). A Triassic spider from Italy. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 58(2), 325-330, http://www.dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2011.0132
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