Article: Mygalomorph spiders (Araneae: Dipluridae) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Lagerstätte, Araripe Basin, north-east
Brazil
Publication: Palaeontology
Volume:
49
Part:
4
Publication Date:
July
2006
Page(s):
817
–
826
Author(s):
Paul A. Selden, Fabio da Costa Casado and Marisa Vianna Mesquita
Abstract
The first mygalomorph spiders from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Lagerstatte of Ceara Province, north-east Brazil, are described, from adult males and females, in two new genera and species: Cretadiplura ceara Selden, gen. et sp. nov. and Dinodiplura ambulacra Selden, gen. et sp. nov. They belong to the extant family Dipluridae, hitherto known as fossils only from Tertiary strata; thus this occurrence extends the family record by some 90 myr.
