What type of spider is this?

I'm not from your part of the US, so I'm not that familiar with the spiders in your area. But from your description, it might have been an Arizona brown spider, a funnel web spider or a funnel web wolf spider. You can see pictures of each by clicking on the links in this website: a href="http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/category/arizona/arizona-invertebrates/arizona-spiders-and-arachnids/" rel="nofollow"http://fireflyforest.net/firefly/categor…/a