Seppo koponeni

Seppo koponeni
Temporal range: Early Jurassic
Holotype and only known specimen MB.A 2966.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Chelicerata
Class:Arachnida
Order:Araneae
Infraorder:Araneomorphae
Genus:Seppo
Selden & Dunlop, 2014
Species: S. koponeni
Binomial name
Seppo koponeni
Selden & Dunlop, 2014

Seppo is an extinct genus of spiders, possibly of the superfamily Palpimanoidea, that lived about 200-180 million years ago, in the Early Jurassic of what is now Europe. The sole species Seppo koponeni is known from a single fossil from Grimmen, Germany.[1]

References

  1. Selden, Paul A.; Dunlop, Jason A. (2014). "The first fossil spider (Araneae: Palpimanoidea) from the Lower Jurassic (Grimmen, Germany)". Zootaxa. 3894 (1): 161–168. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3894.1.13.


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