Arachnida - Araneae - Protheridiidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 275894

Full reference: J. Wunderlich. 2004. On the relationships of the families of the superfamily Araneoidea (Araneae) and their kin, with cladograms, remarks on the origin of the orb web and description of the new and extinct families Baltsuccinidae and Protheridiidae in Tertiary Baltic amber. Beiträge zur Araneologie 3:1112-1154

Belongs to Protheridion according to J. Wunderlich 2004

Sister taxa: Protheridion detritus, Protheridion obscurum, Protheridion punctatum, Protheridion tibialis

Type specimen: F250/BB/AR/PRO/CJW. Its type locality is Bitterfeld amber (Wunderlich collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Germany.

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