Cretamygale

Cretamygale is a genus of extinct mygalomorph spiders known from the Wessex Formation from the Isle of Wight, UK, dating the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous, around 128 million years ago. It contains only one species, C. chasei, known from a single specimen found in amber near Chilton Chine. It was tentatively assigned to the Nemesiidae in the original description.[1] Later studies considered it indeterminate within the Avicularioidea.[2]

Cretamygale
Temporal range: Barremian,
Holotype specimen of Cretamygale in amber
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Clade: Avicularioidea
Genus: †Cretamygale
Species:
†C. chasei
Binomial name
†Cretamygale chasei
Selden, 2002

References
  1. Selden, Paul A. (2002). "First British Mesozoic Spider, From Cretaceous Amber Of The Isle Of Wight, Southern England" (PDF). Palaeontology. 45 (5): 973–983. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00271. hdl:1808/8357. ISSN 0031-0239. S2CID 128894011.
  2. Magalhaes, Ivan L. F.; Azevedo, Guilherme H. F.; Michalik, Peter; Ramírez, Martín J. (February 2020). "The fossil record of spiders revisited: implications for calibrating trees and evidence for a major faunal turnover since the Mesozoic". Biological Reviews. 95 (1): 184–217. doi:10.1111/brv.12559. ISSN 1464-7931. PMID 31713947. S2CID 207937170.
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