Cryptomartus hindi

Cryptomartus hindi is an extinct species of Carboniferous-aged trigonotarbid arachnid from Westphalian-aged coal strata in England and Germany.

Cryptomartus hindi
Temporal range: 314.6 Ma
↓
Westphalian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Arachnida
Order:
†Trigonotarbida
Family:
†Anthracomartidae
Genus:
†Cryptomartus
Species:
C. hindi
Binomial name
Cryptomartus hindi
(Pocock, 1911)

3-D modeling

Scientists at Imperial College London created a detailed 3D computer model of the arachnid from fossils.[1][2]

References
  1. "Scary Ancient 'Spiders' Revealed In 3D Models, With New Imaging Technique". ScienceDaily. August 5, 2009.
  2. Garwood, R.; Dunlop, J. A.; Sutton, M. D. (2009). "High-fidelity X-ray micro-tomography reconstruction of siderite-hosted Carboniferous arachnids". Biology Letters. 5 (6): 841–844. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0464. PMC 2828000. PMID 19656861.
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