Palaeothele
| Palaeothele Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Suborder: | Mesothelae |
| Genus: | †Palaeothele |
| Species: | †P. montceauensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Palaeothele montceauensis (Selden, 1996)[1]
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Palaeothele is an extinct
Taxonomy
The genus was first named as Eothele by
spinnerets.[3] The species name montceauensis refers to the location where the fossils were found.[2]
Phylogeny
In 1996, Selden suggested the relationships shown in the cladogram below. (At the time, book lungs.[2]
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References
- ^ a b Dunlop, J.A.; Penney, D.; Jekel, D. (2016), "A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives, version 16.5" (PDF), World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-03-31
- ^ a b c Selden, P.A. (1996), "First fossil mesothele spider from the Carboniferous of France" (PDF), Revue suisse de Zoologie, hors série: 585–596, retrieved 2016-03-18
- ^ Selden, P.A. (2000), "Palaeothele, replacement name for the fossil mesothele spider Eothele non Rowell" (PDF), Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 11 (292), retrieved 2016-03-31
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