Eophrynus prestvicii
Eophrynus prestvicii is an extinct species of arachnid belonging to the order Trigonotarbida.

Jason A. Dunlop & Russell Garwood · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
- EophrynusPBDB
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 316.9 Mya and 309.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Eophrynus prestvicii 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
2 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.
Eophrynus prestvicii and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Eophrynus prestvicii and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
3 taxa- Curculioides ansticii1 site
- Lithosialis brongniarti1 site
- Valloisella lievinensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Eophrynus prestvicii, 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
2 references- On the discovery of a new and very perfect arachnide from the ironstone of the Dudley coal-field1
- Buckland, 18371
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Eophrynus prestvicii
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jason A. Dunlop & Russell Garwood
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eophrynus prestvicii 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEophrynus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Buckland 1837)