Contemporary organisms of the dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight - Cretamygale, a Cretaceous Spider from the Isle of Wight

Cretamygale,

a Cretaceous Spider from the Isle of Wight

Cretamygale

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.