Incredible Discovery: Fossilised Spider in German Quarry Revealed to be 310 Million Years Old
- The spider has been named after Tim Wolterbeek, the man who discovered it
- It is now being described in a paper as the older of its kind found in Germany
At 310 million years old, it’s unlikely to crawl out of your plughole.
But this fossilised spider still manages to look creepy after being described in a scientific paper as being the oldest of its kind ever found in Germany.
It is called arthrolycosa wolterbeeki – named after Tim Wolterbeek, who unearthed the ancient bug in the Piesberg quarry near Osnabruck in Lower Saxony – and has now donated the fossil to Berlin’s Natural History Museum.
A study published in The Paleontological Journal by the museum’s Dr Jason Dunlop revealed: ‘This spider probably had a body length of about a centimetre and a leg span of about 4cm. It is preserved well enough to show details of the silk-producing spinnerets and even hairs and claws on the legs.’
The ancient creepy crawly is described in a recent scientific paper as the oldest spider found in Germany.
The study has been published in the international journal Palaontologische Zeitschrift by Dr. Jason Dunlop from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
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