Orchestina baltica

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrchestinaPBDB
- 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.
11 occurrences of Orchestina baltica 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
11 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.
Orchestina baltica and its relatives
EoceneWhere Orchestina baltica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,519 taxa- Segestria5 sites
- Ablator triguttatus4 sites
- Acrometa cristata4 sites
- Araneae4 sites
- Balticoroma serafinorum4 sites
- Eocryphoeca gracilipes4 sites
- Eomatachia latifrons4 sites
- Eomysmena oculata4 sites
- Episinus longimanus4 sites
- Ero permunda4 sites
- Eustaloides setosus4 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi4 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea4 sites
- Araneidae3 sites
- Archaea paradoxa3 sites
- Archipseudophasmatidae3 sites
- Archipseudophasmatinae3 sites
- Balticophasma3 sites
- Clostes priscus3 sites
- Electroleria alacris3 sites
- Eohahnia succini3 sites
- Esuritor spinipes3 sites
- Eustaloides succini3 sites
- Gorgopsina frenata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Orchestina baltica, 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
5 references- Amber Spiders in European Collections5
- Fossile Zwergsechsaugenspinnen (Oonopidae) der Gattung Orchestina Simon, 1882 in Bernstein mit Anmerkungen zur Sexual-biologie (Arachnida: Araneae)2
- A study of amber spiders2
- Baltic amber spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology1
- Fossil Spiders in the Collection of the American Museum of Natural History1
Each of the 11 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 Orchestina baltica
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Orchestina baltica 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 itOrchestina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Petrunkevitch 1942