Attercopus
No picture of Attercopus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Attercopus itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Attercopus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- UraraneidaPBDB
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida
Time the record covers
At least 3.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 385.9 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 379 Mya.
3 occurrences of Attercopus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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
2 formations
- Panther Mountain Formation · Hamilton Group2
- Onteora Formation1
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The named rock units Attercopus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Attercopus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Attercopus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Arachnida2 sites
- Devonobius delta2 sites
- Leclercqia2 sites
- Aculeatarbus depressus1 site
- Archaeacarus dubinini1 site
- Archaeognatha1 site
- Chelicerata1 site
- Crussolum crusserratum1 site
- Dracochela deprehendor1 site
- Ecchosis pulchribothrium1 site
- Gelasinotarbus bifidus1 site
- Gelasinotarbus bonamoae1 site
- Gelasinotarbus heptops1 site
- Gelasinotarbus reticulatus1 site
- Gilboarachne griersoni1 site
- Rellimia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Attercopus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Fossil evidence for the origin of spider spinnerets, and a proposed arachnid order1
- A spider and other arachnids from the Devonian of New York, and reinterpretations of Devonian Araneae1
- New terrestrial arachnids from the Devonian of Gilboa, New York (Arachnida, Trigonotarbida)1
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
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No picture of Attercopus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Attercopus itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Attercopus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Attercopus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itUraraneida through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Selden and Shear 1991