Huntsman Spider in Baltic Amber Imaged Using Phase Contrast X Ray Tomography

Computed tomography (CT) methods were applied to a problematic fossil spider (Arachnida: Araneae) from the historical Berendt collection of Eocene (ca. 4449 Ma) Baltic amber. Original specimens of Ocypete crassipes Koch Berendt, 1854 are in dark, oxidised amber and the published descriptions lack detail. Despite this, they were subsequently assigned to the living Pantropical genus Heteropoda Latreille, 1804; and are ostensibly the oldest records of huntsman spiders (Sparassidae) in general. Образовательные видео в сообществе