Meaning
Chalk spider
Classification
Aranea Clerck, 1757
Opisthothelae Pocock 1892
Nemesiidae Simon 1889
Cretamygale chasei Seldon, 2002
Stratigraphy
Wessex Formation
Lifestyle
Would have lived like modern spiders, making webs and catching flying insects
Description
Bipectinate (nemesiid?) mygalomorph with ocular tubercle, caput not strongly raised, sloping thoracic region, pair of erect setae on anterior wall of fovea; on at least leg 1, tarsus and metatarsus with symmetrically arranged scopulae, tarsus cracked ventrally, no claw tufts.