Introduction to spiders: a palaeontological perspective -- What is the importance of fossil spiders? -- How do we know how old the fossit spiders are? -- The fossil record of spiders -- Bias in the fossil record and data deficit -- Techniques for preparation and study of fossil spiders -- Identifying and naming fossil spiders -- The strictly fossil spider families -- The evolutionary tree of spiders -- Spider biogeography: present and past
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-127) and index