Chthoniidae

Chthoniidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChthonioideaPBDB
Life habit
solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 18 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 18 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 18 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 18 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 1 occurrence99–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

18 occurrences of Chthoniidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

18 occurrences

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

Barstow — 34.94°N, 116.83°W

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The named rock units Chthoniidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chthoniidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Chthoniidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,080 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Chthoniidae, 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

13 references

Each of the 18 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Chthoniidae

Credit
Wlodzimierz
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Chthoniidae 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 itChthonioidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Daday 1889