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Carboniferous to Permian. They were
considered by
Alexander Petrunkevitch to be "
mesotheles", i.e.
placed in the
spider suborder Mesothelae. However, Paul A. Selden...
- be "
mesotheles", i.e.
placed in the
spider suborder Mesothelae.
Petrunkevitch used the
family for
Carboniferous fossils he
regarded as
mesotheles but...
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Palaeothele is an
extinct genus of
mesothele spiders, with only one
known species Palaeothele montceauensis. Two
fossils were
found at Montceau-les-Mines...
- they are not
homologous with the
maxillae of
mandibulate arthropods. In
mesothele and
mygalomorph spiders, the
maxillae are only
slightly modified; in araneomorph...
- 0809174106. PMC 2634869. PMID 19104044. Selden, P. A. (February 1996). "Fossil
mesothele spiders". Nature. 379 (6565): 498–499. Bibcode:1996Natur.379..498S. doi:10...
- Selden, 2000 (unplaced in a family)
Between 2015 and 2019 six
genera of
Mesothele spider in four
families were
described from Late
Cretaceous (Cenomanian)...
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which he
placed in the
family Barychelidae. In 1985,
Robert Raven made
Mesothele a
junior synonym of Trichopelma,
saying that "it does not
differ in any...
- ISSN 0028-1042. PMC 3889289. PMID 24317464. Selden, P.A. (1996). "Fossil
mesothele spiders". Nature. 379 (6565): 498–99. Bibcode:1996Natur.379..498S. doi:10...
- with tails. The
fossil resembles the most
primitive living spiders, the
mesotheles. The
subdivisions of the
arachnids are
usually treated as orders. Historically...
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apparently less
complex than the
bulbus of
mesotheles. The
abdomen is segmented, like that of a
mesothele spider. However,
unlike spiders,
there are several...
