Palaeoperenethis thaleri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lycosoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Series: Entelegynae Superfamilia: Lycosoidea

Familia: Pisauridae
Genus: †Palaeoperenethis
Species: †Palaeoperenethis thaleri

Name

• †Palaeoperenethis thaleri Selden & Penney, 2009

Type locality

• Early Eocene, Ypresian; Eocene Okanagan Highlands; Unnamed Shale beds, Unnamed sediments group; Horsefly Mine, 10 km (6.2 mi) north of Horsefly, Horsefly River Valley, Cariboo region, central British Columbia, Canada

Type material

• Holotype:ROM 31304 (part & Counterpart)
  • Repository:Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Etymology

• The trivial name is in memory of Dr. Konrad Thaler of Innsbruck, Austria, whose scholarship and sincere friendship we shall miss.

References

• Selden, P.A. & Penney, D. (2009) A fossil spider (Araneae: Pisauridae) of Eocene age from Horsefly, British Columbia, Canada. Contributions to Natural History 12: 1269–1282. 
• Silva, E.L.C.D.; Sierwald, P. 2013: On three monotypic nursery web spider genera from Madagascar with first description of the male of Tallonia picta Simon, 1889 and redescription of the type-species of Paracladycnis Blandin, 1979 and Thalassiopsis Roewer, 1955 (Araneae: Lycosoidea: Pisauridae). Zootaxa 3750(3): 277–288. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3750.3.7 Reference page.