The 315–0 Ma Araneae display is an oldest-known-fossil-to-living navigation envelope and does not date spider origination or crown divergence.
claim:taxon:araneae:fossil-rangeFossil spiders
Selden, P.A.; Penney, D.
Year2010
Source rolesystematic-review
DOI / ID10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00099.x
Fitness and scope
taxonomy · range · morphology · biogeography
Systematic fossil-record review supports the Carboniferous spider record while retaining taxonomic and sampling limits.
Claim ledger
The spider fossil review records Carboniferous and younger occurrences, and Wheeler et al. sample living lineages broadly for target-gene phylogeny; these fossil localities and sampled species do not form a complete geographic distribution of Araneae.
claim:taxon:araneae:biogeography