Cretamygale

Cretamygale Temporal range: Barremian, 128  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Holotype specimen of Cretamygale in amber
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Clade:	Avicularioidea
Genus:	† Cretamygale
Species:	†C. chasei
Binomial name
†Cretamygale chasei Selden, 2002

Cretamygale is a genus of extinct mygalomorph spiders known from the Wessex Formation from the Isle of Wight, UK, dating the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous, around 128 million years ago. It contains only one species, C. chasei, known from a single specimen found in amber near Chilton Chine. It was tentatively assigned to the Nemesiidae in the original description. ^[1] Later studies considered it indeterminate within the Avicularioidea. ^[2]

References

1. Selden, Paul A. (2002). "First British Mesozoic Spider, From Cretaceous Amber Of The Isle Of Wight, Southern England" (PDF). Palaeontology. 45 (5): 973–983. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00271. hdl: 1808/8357 . ISSN   0031-0239. S2CID   128894011.
2. Magalhaes, Ivan L. F.; Azevedo, Guilherme H. F.; Michalik, Peter; Ramírez, Martín J. (February 2020). "The fossil record of spiders revisited: implications for calibrating trees and evidence for a major faunal turnover since the Mesozoic" . Biological Reviews. 95 (1): 184–217. doi:10.1111/brv.12559. ISSN   1464-7931. PMID   31713947. S2CID   207937170.