Orthotarbus robustus


ISM 14873
coin = 19mm (~0.75 in.)

Orthotarbus robustus is a member of an extinct group of arachnids called architarbids. These spider-like animals lived on land during the Mississipian and Pennsylvanian.

This specimen is the holotype.


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