Lechytia

Lechytia is a genus of pseudoscorpions in the subfamily Lechytiinae within the family Chthoniidae. It is the sole genus in its subfamily and contains 22 described species from many parts of the world.

Lechytia

Jana Christophoryová & Katarína Krajčovičová · 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
LechytiinaePBDB
Life habit
solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida

Time the record covers

At least 75 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 18.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 13.82 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 3 occurrencesMiocene102–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93.9 Mya18.5 Mya102 Mya12 Mya

3 occurrences of Lechytia on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

3 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 Lechytia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lechytia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lechytia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

209 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lechytia, 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

Each of the 3 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. 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 Lechytia

Credit
Jana Christophoryová & Katarína Krajčovičová
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lechytia 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.

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What may have been alongside itLechytiinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Balzan 1891