.25" Fossil Spider (Araneae) - Cereste, France

This is a .25" long (including visible legs) spider (order Araneae) fossil collected from an Oligocene-aged shale deposit near Cereste in Southern France.

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.