Megarachne servienei, giant spider? Oviraptor scientists Meave Leakey and Bernard

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

of the Egg Mountain brooding colony of a much larger relative

KNM-ER 1813 has a much smaller face

It was not until the discovery of the skull of a relative

Megarachne servienei, giant spider? Oviraptor scientists Meave Leakey and BernardMegarachne 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