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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Superfamily: | Palpimanoidea |
| Family: | †Lagonomegopidae Eskov and Wunderlich 1995 |
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Lagonomegopidae is an extinct family of spiders known from the Cretaceous period. Members of the family are distinguished by a large pair of eyes, positioned on the anterolateral flanks of the carapace, with the rest of the eyes being small. They have generally been considered members of Palpimanoidea, but this has recently been questioned.[1] Members of the family are known from the late Early Cretaceous (Albian) to near the end of the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Eurasia, North America and the Middle East, which was then attached to Africa as part of Gondwana. They are generally assumed to have been free living hunters as opposed to web builders.[1]
- ^ a b Guo, Xiangbo; Selden, Paul A.; Shih, Chungkun; Ren, Dong (February 2020). "Two new lagonomegopid spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the mid-Cretaceous of Northern Myanmar, with comments on the superfamilial placement of Lagonomegopidae". Cretaceous Research. 106: 104257. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104257. S2CID 204270349.