Arthrolycosa
Extinct genus of spiders / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arthrolycosa (meaning wolf [spider] with joints) is an extinct genus of arachnids, possibly spiders, that lived about 300-250 million years ago.
Quick Facts Arthrolycosa Temporal range: Late Carboniferous to Late Permian, Scientific classification ...
Arthrolycosa Temporal range: Late Carboniferous to Late Permian | |
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Arthrolycosa antiqua, illustrated by C. E. Beecher | |
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Reconstruction of Arthrolycosa wolterbeeki | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae (?) |
Family: | †Arthrolycosidae |
Genus: | †Arthrolycosa Harger, 1874 |
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Fossils have been found Mazon Creek USA, Piesberg in Germany and in the Kirov Oblast region, and the Kamensk-Shakhtinsky of Russia.[1][2][3][4]
A. antiqua is estimated to have a body length of about 2.17 cm[2] and may have preyed upon insects and other smaller animals that lived alongside them. A. wolterbeeki is the oldest spider known from Germany.[3]