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]
| Cretamygale Temporal range: Barremian,
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| Holotype specimen of Cretamygale in amber | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
| Clade: | Avicularioidea |
| Genus: | †Cretamygale |
| Species: | †C. chasei
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| Binomial name | |
| †Cretamygale chasei Selden, 2002
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References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.