Fossilcalcaridae
Extinct family of spiders
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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: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |