.80" Detailed Fossil Spider (Araneae) - Cereste, France

This is a .80" long (including visible legs) spider (order Araneae) fossil collected from an Oligocene-aged shale deposit near Cereste in Southern France. The preservation detail is excellent, with hairs visible on the legs under magnification.

It comes with an acrylic display stand.

This is part of an old collection that we recently acquired. The collection includes a variety of insect fossils from around Southern France, collected over a span of 50 years by a woman with PhDs in paleontology and pharmacology.