Heterotarbus ovatus

Heterotarbus ovatus

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
HeterotarbusPBDB
Life habit
solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida

Time the record covers

At most 2.4 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 309.8 Mya and 307.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Heterotarbus ovatus 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

1 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

Carbondale — 41.34°N, 88.39°W

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The named rock units Heterotarbus ovatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Heterotarbus ovatus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Heterotarbus ovatus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Heterotarbus ovatus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Heterotarbus ovatus

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

No 3D scan of Heterotarbus ovatus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itHeterotarbus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Petrunkevitch 1913