IRMNG taxon details
original description
Selden, P. A.; Shih, C.; Ren, D. (2013). A giant spider from the Jurassic of China reveals greater diversity of the orbicularian stem group. <em>Naturwissenschaften.</em> 100(12): 1171-1181., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-013-1121-7 [details]
basis of record
www.organismnames.com (Mar 2015) / web search [details]
additional source
Selden, P. A.; Olcott, A. N.; Downen, M. R.; Ren, D.; Shih, C.; Cheng, X. (2019). The supposed giant spider Mongolarachne chaoyangensis, from the Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China, is a crayfish. <em>Palaeoentomology.</em> 2(5): 515-522., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.5.15 note: exposes a supposed second species, M. chaoyangensis, as a forgery [details]
current name source
original publication [details]
extant flag source
inferred from original work (title) [details]
habitat flag source
inferred from original work (title)/web search (AJR) [details]
Unreviewed
Taxonomic remark The type species, Mongolarachne jurassica (Selden, Shih & Ren, 2011), originally Nephila jurassica, is an accepted species, however a second described species, M. chaoyangensis, was exposed as a forgery in 2019, refer Selden et al., 2019. [details]
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