- Tytuł:
- A new deinopoid spider from Cretaceous Lebanese amber
- Autorzy:
- Penney, D
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/20055.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2003
- Wydawca:
- Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Paleobiologii PAN
- Tematy:
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Early Cretaceous
Araneae
Palaeomicromenneus lebanensis
Cretaceous
spider
Lebanese amber
paleontology
Deinopidae
amber - Opis:
- Palaeomicromenneus lebanensis gen. et sp. nov. (Araneae: Deinopidae) is described from Upper Neocomian–basal Lower Aptian (ca. 125–135 Ma) Cretaceous amber from the Hammana/Mdeyrij outcrop, Lebanon. This is the oldest known, and possibly the first true fossil, deinopid. The lack of ocular modifications in the new fossil genus does not exclude it from having exhibited the same net−casting prey capture behaviour as extant deinopids. Alternatively, this prey−capture behaviour may be highly derived and whether it had evolved by the Early Cretaceous cannot be determined for sure; early deinopids (as diagnosed by pedipalp morphology rather than behaviour) may have been orb−web weavers as is their sister taxon the Uloboridae.
- Źródło:
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Acta Palaeontologica Polonica; 2003, 48, 4
0567-7920 - Pojawia się w:
- Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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