A fossil ray spider (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae) in Cretaceous amber from Vendée, France
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https://doi.org/10.17161/PC.1808.15982Abstract
A new species of fossil ray spider, Baalzebub? mesozoicum n. sp. (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae), is described from Mesozoic amber from the Cretaceous (Middle Cenomanian to Early Santonian) deposits of La Garnache, Vendée, NW France. The palpal structures, especially the highly sclerotized claw-shaped retrolateral ‘paracymbium’ originating as an outgrowth of the cymbium basally and the basal cymbial lamella, are considered sufficient to make a tentative placement of the new fossil species in the extant genus Baalzebub Coddington, 1986.
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Penney, David. 2014. “A Fossil Ray Spider (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae) in Cretaceous Amber from Vendée, France”. Paleontological Contributions, no. 10 (December): 5-8. https://doi.org/10.17161/PC.1808.15982.
