Grandoculus, Penney, 2004

Penney, David, 2004, Cretaceous Canadian amber spider and the palpimanoidean nature of lagonomegopids, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49 (4), pp. 579-584 : 582

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13522419

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scientific name

Grandoculus
status

 

Genus Grandoculus nov.

Type species: Grandoculus chemahawinensis sp. nov. by monotypy. Derivation of name: Grand from the Latin grandis, meaning large, and oculus from the Latin oculus, meaning eye.

Diagnosis.— Grandoculus can be distinguished from Lagonomegops , the other genus in this family by having a raised cephalic region, the elongate, curved chelicerae and the long, dense, hook−tipped scopulae on the prolateral surface of metatarsus 1.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Grandoculidae

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