Named By: | Paul A. Selden & Diying Huang in 2010 |
Time Period: | Middle or Late Jurassic, 164 Ma |
Location: | Mongolia - Daohugou Beds |
Size: | Body length about 3 millimetres long, leg span roughly estimated about 8-9 millimetres |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | At least seven individual spiders |
Classification: | | Arthropoda | Arachnida | Araneae | Araneomorphae | Plectreuridae | |
Eoplectreurys is an extinct monotypic genus of spider from the family Plectreuridae, with a sole species, Eoplectreurys gertschi. The fossils of Eoplectreurys were recovered from the ~164 Ma old Middle Jurassic Daohugou formation tuffs in Inner Mongolia, China.