Fossilanapis

Henningsen · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- AnapidaePBDB
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Fossilanapis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
13 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Fossilanapis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Fossilanapis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
935 taxa- Balticoroma serafinorum5 sites
- Lasaeola communis4 sites
- Balticoroma ernstorum3 sites
- Chelicirrum stridulans3 sites
- Cymbiohahnia parens3 sites
- Eohahnia succini3 sites
- Episinus longimanus3 sites
- Euryopis bitterfeldensis3 sites
- Gorgopsina frenata3 sites
- Harpactea3 sites
- Lasaeola infulata3 sites
- Lasaeola latisulci3 sites
- Mysmena groehni3 sites
- Orchestina (Baltorchestina) imperialis3 sites
- Paraspermophora3 sites
- Pseudoteutana stigmatosa3 sites
- Ruganapis scutata3 sites
- Spinilipus bispinosus3 sites
- Ablator triguttatus2 sites
- Apostenus bigibber2 sites
- Apostenus spinimanus2 sites
- Archaea paradoxa2 sites
- Balticolipus kruemmeri2 sites
- Balticoroma gracilipes2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Fossilanapis, 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
3 references- The fossil spiders of the family Anapidae s. l. (Araneae) in Baltic, Dominican and Mexican amber and their extant relatives, with the description of a new subfamily Comarominae9
- Some fossil spiders (Araneae) in Eocene European ambers3
- On extant and fossil (Eocene) European comb-footed spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae), with notes on their subfamilies, and with descriptions of new taxa1
Each of the 13 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Fossilanapis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Henningsen
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Fossilanapis 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 itAnapidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wunderlich 2004