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Palaeothele is an extinct of , with only one known species Palaeothele montceauensis. Two were found at Montceau-les-Mines, France, in concretion deposits of Late Carboniferous (Stephanian) age, about .


Taxonomy
The genus was first named as Eothele by Paul A. Selden in 1996. However, this name had already been used for a , so in 2000, Selden proposed the replacement name Palaeothele. Palaeothele is derived from the παλαιός, "ancient", and θηλή, "nipple" – a common ending for spider names, referring to their spinnerets. The species name montceauensis refers to the location where the fossils were found.


Phylogeny
In 1996, Selden suggested the relationships shown in the cladogram below. (At the time, was thought to be a spider; it is now considered to belong to a related but separate group, the .) Palaeothele is shown as sister to the modern genus since they both have "tracheal sacs", structures adjacent to the posterior .

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