Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
With an estimated length of 33.9 cm (13.3 in) based on the assumption that the fossil was that of a spider, and with a leg-span estimated to be 50 centimetres (20 in), Megarachne servinei would have been the largest spider to have ever existed; exceeding the goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blondi), which has a maximum leg-span of around 30 cm (12 ...
History and classification [ edit ] Mongolarachne jurassica is known only from two fossils, the holotype , specimen number "CNU-ARA-NN2010008" which is a mostly complete adult female and the later described allotopotype male, number CNU-ARA-NN2011001-1 (part) and CNU-ARA-NN20110001-2 (counterpart).
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file
The genus name honors the Douglass family, who donated the specimen to Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, and the species name references the spines that make this arachnid so distinctive.
Douglassarachne is an extinct genus of arachnid from the Late Carboniferous , known from single species D. acanthopoda. It is known exclusively from one specimen recovered from the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte, Illinois, US. This arachnid is characterized by having large spines on its legs.
Amblypygi is an order of arachnids also known as whip-spiders or tailless whip-scorpions, not to be confused with whip-scorpions or vinegaroons that belong to the related order Thelyphonida.
The walking legs again follow the typical arachnid plan with a coxa, trochanter, femur, patella, tibia, metatarsus and tarsus. [1] The coxae surround a single sternum. In well preserved palaeocharinids there is a ring, or annulus, around the trochanter–femur joint which may be the remains of an earlier leg segment. [ 35 ]
Scientific name Common name Year last seen Last known location Centrobunus braueri: N/A 1894 Mahé, Seychelles [1]: Dicrogonatus gardineri: N/A 1909 Mahé, Seychelles [2] ...