Megarachne servienei, giant spider? Oviraptor It lived during the mid-Cretaceous

It lived during the mid-Cretaceous period

During the Eocene

scientists Meave Leakey and Bernard Wood reconstructed KNM-ER 1470’s skull from more than 150 fragments

The shell did not come to cover the pectoral and pelvic girdle

Megarachne servienei, giant spider? Oviraptor It lived during the mid-CretaceousMegarachne servinei was originally described in 1980 by the Argentinean paleontologist Mario Hunicken. The holotype was recovered from the Pallero Member of the Bajo de Veliz Formation of Argentina, a locality dated to the early Permian of about 296 million years ago. Hunicken wrongly identified the specimen as a mygalomorph spider based on the shape of the carapace, the 15 millimeters wide circular eye tubercle located between the two eyes in the