Biggest Spider Fossil Now Has Mate (Middle Jurassic, China)

[Oxytropidoceras]

Biggest Spider Fossil Now Has Mate — But It's Complicated

by Megan Gannon, Live Science, December 17, 2013

http://news.discovery.com/animals/insects/spider-fossil-now-has-mate-but-its-complicated-131217.htm

Look If You Dare: Ancient Spider Family Album

by Larry O'Hanlon, Live Science, October 29, 2013

http://news.discovery.com/animals/insects/look-if-you-dare-ancient-spider-family-album-131029.htm

The paper is:

Selden, P. A., C. Shih, and D. Ren, 2013, A giant spider

from the Jurassic of China reveals greater diversity

of the orbicularian stem group. Naturwissenschaften.

vol. 100, no. 12, pp 1171-1181.

Open access article at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-013-1121-7

PDF file also at http://www.paulselden.net/uploads/7/5/3/2/7532217/mongolarachne.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.

[Bullsnake]

I read about this a few days ago, and also saw it posted on a spider forum I'm on.

As I said on that forum, being a fossil and a spider, that's double interesting to me!