Araripescorpius ligabuei

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AraripescorpiusPBDB
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida
Time the record covers
At most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 113.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Araripescorpius ligabuei on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
3 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
- Crato Formation · Santana Group3
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The named rock units Araripescorpius ligabuei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Araripescorpius ligabuei and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Araripescorpius ligabuei and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
144 taxa- Colocrus indivicum3 sites
- Araripegomphus andreneli2 sites
- Araripeliupanshania annesuseae2 sites
- Araripephlebia mirabilis2 sites
- Cratosolpuga wunderlichi2 sites
- Cretarchistigma essweini2 sites
- Cretereisma2 sites
- Eoproscopia martilli2 sites
- Incertametra santanensis2 sites
- Mariconitermes talicei2 sites
- Meiatermes araripena2 sites
- Mesoproctus rowlandi2 sites
- Protoischnurus axelrodorum2 sites
- Protoligoneuria limai2 sites
- Rafaeliana minima2 sites
- Santanmantis axelrodi2 sites
- Wightonia araripina2 sites
- Ampulicidae1 site
- Apticax solidus1 site
- Apticax volans1 site
- Araripegomphus hanseggeri1 site
- Araripeneura1 site
- Araripeneura damianii1 site
- Araripeneura regia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Araripescorpius ligabuei, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- Higher systematics of scorpions from the Crato Formation, Lower Cretaceous of Brazil2
- Primeiro registro fóssil de Scorpionoidea da Chapada do Araripe (Cretáceo Inferior), Brasil1
Each of the 3 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Araripescorpius ligabuei
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Ghedoghedo
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Araripescorpius ligabuei was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAraripescorpius through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Campos 1986