{"id":474509,"date":"2023-05-17T14:42:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=474509"},"modified":"2023-05-17T14:42:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:42:38","slug":"the-banded-spider-of-taubate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/the-banded-spider-of-taubate\/","title":{"rendered":"The banded spider of Taubat\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spiders emerged on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, but because of their fragile bodies, they leave few fossil records\u2014most of those found are preserved in amber. In South America, spider fossils are very rare and generally date from specific geological periods, usually the lower Cretaceous (between 145 million and 100 million years ago) or the Pleistocene (within the last 2 million years). In a recently published study, researchers from Paran\u00e1 and S\u00e3o Paulo described a highly unusual spider fossil from an intermediate period: the Paleogene, between 65 million and 23 million years ago. Found in Trememb\u00e9 in the interior of S\u00e3o Paulo State in the 1990s, the fossil is preserved in a sedimentary rock of the Taubat\u00e9 formation and is part of the paleontology collection at the University of Guarulhos (UNG). Paleontologist Ariel Martine of the State University of Northern Paran\u00e1 (UENP) and his colleagues analyzed the fossil and described it as belonging to a new species of spider: <em>Taubaracna maculosa<\/em>, the banded spider of Taubat\u00e9. It had dark bands around its joints and an extremely long pair of front legs, four times the length of its body, which measured just 5 millimeters (<em>Journal of South American Earth Sciences<\/em>, January 2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fossil from Taubat\u00e9 used to describe an extinct spider with a banded pattern and very long front legs","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":474510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[255,266],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-474509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-paleontology","tag-zoology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474514,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474509\/revisions\/474514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474509"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=474509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}