Architarbus rotundatus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchitarbusPBDB
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida
Time the record covers
At most 2.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 309.8 Mya and 307.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Architarbus rotundatus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
8 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Carbondale Formation · Kewanee Group8
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The named rock units Architarbus rotundatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Architarbus rotundatus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Architarbus rotundatus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
185 taxa- Eoscorpius carbonarius4 sites
- Eucaenus ovalis4 sites
- Acantherpestes major3 sites
- Aphantomartus pustulatus3 sites
- Euphoberia armigera3 sites
- Euphoberia granosa3 sites
- Kustarachne tenuipes3 sites
- Miamia bronsoni3 sites
- Palaeocampa anthrax3 sites
- Pleurojulus biornatus3 sites
- Adiphlebia lacoana2 sites
- Chrestotella danae2 sites
- Chrestotes lapidea2 sites
- Discotarbus deplanatus2 sites
- Eubleptus danielsi2 sites
- Euphoberia simplex2 sites
- Euphoberia spinulosa2 sites
- Euphoberia tracta2 sites
- Euproops danae2 sites
- Geralinura carbonaria2 sites
- Gerarus collaris2 sites
- Gerarus constrictus2 sites
- Mylacridae2 sites
- Mylacris diplodiscus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Architarbus rotundatus, 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
5 references- A monograph of the terrestrial Palaeozoic Arachnida of North America3
- Some additions to the Carboniferous terrestrial arthropod fauna of Illinois2
- Palaeozoic Arachnida of Illinois. An enquiry into their evolutionary trends1
- A contribution to our knowledge of Paleozoic Arachnida1
- Supplement to descriptions of articulates. Descriptions of fossil insects found on Mazon Creek, and near Morris, Grundy Co. Ill1
Each of the 8 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 content2

Picture of Architarbus rotundatus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Laser scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Architarbus rotundatus · TMNH:00647
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itArchitarbus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scudder 1868