MYGALOMORPH SPIDERS (ARANEAE: DIPLURIDAE) FROM THE LOWER CRETACEOUS CRATO LAGERSTÄTTE, ARARIPE BASIN, NORTH-EAST BRAZIL |
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| Authors: | PAUL A. SELDEN,FABIO DA COSTA CASADO&dagger , MARISA VIANNA MESQUITA&dagger |
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| Affiliation: | School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, and The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK;e-mail:; Laboratório de Geociências, Universidade Guarulhos, Praça Tereza Cristina, 01 Guarulhos SP, Brazil;e-mail: |
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| Abstract: | Abstract: The first mygalomorph spiders from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Lagerstätte of Cearà 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. |
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| Keywords: | Arachnida Arthropoda Chelicerata funnel-web |
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