Fossilcalcaridae

Fossilcalcaridae is an extinct Mygalomorphae spider family in the clade Avicularioidea containing the single species Fossilcalcar praeteritus.^[1] The family genus and species were described in 2015 from a male fossil entombed in Cretaceous age Burmese amber.

Fossilcalcaridae Temporal range: Cenomanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Clade:	Avicularioidea
Family:	†Fossilcalcaridae Wunderlich, 2015
Genus:	†Fossilcalcar Wunderlich, 2015
Species:	†F. praeteritus
Binomial name
†Fossilcalcar praeteritus Wunderlich, 2015

References

1. Jörg Wunderlich (2015). "On the evolution and the classification of spiders, the Mesozoic spider faunas, and descriptions of new Cretaceous taxa mainly in amber from Myanmar (Burma) (Arachnida: Araneae)" (PDF). In Jörg Wunderlich (ed.). Beiträge zur Araneologie, 9: Mesozoic spiders and other fossil arachnids. pp. 21–408.