Cenotextricella simoni

Taxobox
name = "Cenotextricella simoni"
fossil_range = Eocene


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
familia = Micropholcommatidae
subfamilia = Textricellinae
genus = "Cenotextricella"
genus_authority = Penney, 2007
species = "C. simoni"
binomial = "Cenotextricella simoni"
binomial_authority = Penney, 2007
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"Cenotextricella simoni" is a fossil spider species from Eocene amber (c. 53 million years ago) from the Paris Basin in France. The male is only about one millimeter long. A female has not yet been found. It is the first fossil record of the family Micropholcommatidae, and the only described species in the genus "Cenotextricella". Recent species only occur in the southern hemisphere, in Australia and South America. [Penney et al. 2007]

The spider probably lived in semi-deciduous or deciduous woodland near a river, in a warm climate with wet and dry seasons.

Like all species of the family it has eight eyes.

Name

The genus name is a combination of "ceno" (from Cenozoic, where the type species originates), and the closely allied extant genus "Textricella". The species is named in honor of famous French arachnologist Eugène Simon (1848-1924).

Footnotes

References

* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".
* (2007): First fossil Micropholcommatidae (Araneae), imaged in Eocene Paris amber using X-Ray Computed Tomography. "Zootaxa" 1612: 47-53. [http://vocuspr.com/VocusEU/Url.aspx?517548x14565x-392684 PDF] [http://mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/z01623p053f.pdf Abstract] [http://reference.dictionary.com] [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071029083230.htm]