Eoscorpiidae

Eoscorpiidae

Alexander Petrunkevitch · Public Domain · 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
IsobuthoideaPBDB
Life habit
solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida

Time the record covers

At least 323 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 353.7 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 31 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 22 of 31 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 31 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 6 of 31 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 31 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 31 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 31 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 31 occurrences361–349 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences349–337 Mya — about 2 occurrences337–325 Mya — about 1 occurrence325–313 Mya — about 9 occurrences313–301 Mya — about 8 occurrences301–289 Mya — about 2 occurrences252–240 Mya — about 6 occurrences24–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences346.7 Mya23.04 Mya361 Mya0 Mya

31 occurrences of Eoscorpiidae 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

31 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

13 formations

Carbondale — 41.34°N, 88.39°WCarbondale — 41.22°N, 88.22°WGrès à Voltzia — 48.91°N, 7.20°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.73°N, 7.17°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.82°N, 7.24°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.69°N, 7.38°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.78°N, 7.25°EGlencartholm Volcanic — 55.00°N, 2.00°WSchistes de Buxières — 46.50°N, 3.05°EParkgate Coal — 53.54°N, 1.52°WParrsboro — 45.38°N, 64.39°WGlencartholm Volcanic Beds — 55.11°N, 2.98°WBerthelsdorf — 51.12°N, 12.50°EMonterey — 34.08°N, 118.17°WGrès à Meules — 48.83°N, 7.26°ETaiyuan — 39.53°N, 106.64°EPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.53°N, 2.51°WFlöz Zweibänke — 52.32°N, 8.01°E

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The named rock units Eoscorpiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eoscorpiidae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Eoscorpiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

305 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Eoscorpiidae, 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

14 references

Each of the 31 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. 2 further references are 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 Eoscorpiidae

Credit
Alexander Petrunkevitch
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eoscorpiidae 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 itIsobuthoidea through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Scudder 1884