Fossilcalcaridae is an extinct Mygalomorphae spider family in the clade Avicularioidea containing the single species Fossilcalcar praeteritus.[1] The family genus and species were described in 2015 from a male fossil entombed in Cretaceous age Burmese amber.

Fossilcalcaridae
Temporal range: Cenomanian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Clade: Avicularioidea
Family: Fossilcalcaridae
Wunderlich, 2015
Genus: Fossilcalcar
Wunderlich, 2015
Species:
F. praeteritus
Binomial name
Fossilcalcar praeteritus
Wunderlich, 2015

References

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  1. ^ Jörg Wunderlich (2015). "On the evolution and the classification of spiders, the Mesozoic spider faunas, and descriptions of new Cretaceous taxa mainly in amber from Myanmar (Burma) (Arachnida: Araneae)" (PDF). In Jörg Wunderlich (ed.). Beiträge zur Araneologie, 9: Mesozoic spiders and other fossil arachnids. pp. 21–408.