… of fossil arachnids and their relatives, our aim here is to offer a summary list of the known fossil
spiders … goal of combining fossil and Recent data within a single arachnological resource. …

… Spider fossils date back to the Palaeozoic era, and may have been … a brief review of the
history of systematic research in extant spiders, followed by a review of studies on fossil spiders. …

… some summary statistics relating to the history of fossil spider taxonomy and … fossil spider
in 1822 and the next data plot is actually 32 years. Squares = newly described fossil spider …

… Nonetheless, extended eigenshape analysis is an extremely useful tool for the … analysis of
fossil spiders, demonstrated that carapace shape was, on the whole, uninformative for spiders …

… between taxonomic placement of fossils and their phylogenetic position. To … on fossil spiders,
with a special focus on putative synapomorphies and the phylogenetic placement of fossil …

… of fossil spiders, give a survey of the range of techniques used in the study of fossil spiders,
… few decades have greatly enhanced our knowledge of fossil spiders and their phylogeny. …

… Subfossil spiders from peat bogs can also be identified and assigned to extant species (…
been included in our lists. Our total dataset for amber and non-amber spiders yields 979 fossil …

… Over 90 % of fossil spiders originate from ambers of Cainozoic age (less than 65 Ma old). …
habitus being that of a hunting spider. This was the first fossil spider to be described from Africa…

… Here, we examine the nature of fossil spider species and the … in fossilized spider specimens,
yet such character complexes are typically used to identify and delineate extant spider …

… Additionally, we feel that reductive and ratio-based characters derived from single fossil …
new supraspecific fossil spider taxa. We also raise a fundamental question in amber spider …