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EOPLECTREURYS
(e-oh-plec-trew-riss)
meaning: "Dawn Plectreurys - after the Plectreurys genus of spiders"
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 |
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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.

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