Protacaridae

No picture of Protacaridae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Protacaridae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EndeostigmataPBDB
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.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 410.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 5 of 5 occurrencesDevonian413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences413.52 Mya410.12 Mya

5 occurrences of Protacaridae on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

5 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

Dryden Flags — 57.34°N, 2.85°W

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

Protacaridae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Protacaridae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Protacaridae, 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

2 references

Each of the 5 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 content0

No picture of Protacaridae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Protacaridae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protacaridae 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 itEndeostigmata through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Klimov and Kolesnikov 2025