Cretamygale

Cretamygale is a genus of extinct mygalomorph spiders known from the Wessex Formation from the Isle of Wight, UK, dating the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous, around 128 million years ago. It contains only one species, C. chasei, known from a single specimen found in amber near Chilton Chine. It was tentatively assigned to the Nemesiidae in the original description.^[1] Later studies considered it indeterminate within the Avicularioidea.^[2]

Cretamygale Temporal range: Barremian, 128 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Holotype specimen of Cretamygale in amber
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Clade:	Avicularioidea
Genus:	†Cretamygale
Species:	†C. chasei
Binomial name
†Cretamygale chasei Selden, 2002