Opiliotarbus elongatus

Opiliotarbus elongatus

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

Time the record covers

At least 8.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307.4 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 309.8 Mya to 293.52 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPermian310–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307.4 Mya298.9 Mya310.3 Mya293 Mya

2 occurrences of Opiliotarbus elongatus 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

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

2 formations

Carbondale — 41.34°N, 88.39°WNetzkater — 51.58°N, 10.79°E

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

Opiliotarbus elongatus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Opiliotarbus elongatus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

86 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Opiliotarbus elongatus, 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

2 references

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. 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 Opiliotarbus elongatus

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

No 3D scan of Opiliotarbus elongatus 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 itOpiliotarbus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Scudder 1890)