Pseudoscorpiones

Pseudoscorpiones

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
pseudoscorpionPBDB
Sits inside
HaplocnemataPBDB
Life habit
solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida

Time the record covers

At least 382 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 101 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 101 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 101 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 101 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 101 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 101 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 101 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 101 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 101 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 101 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 14 of 101 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 101 occurrencesEocene — about 54 of 101 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 101 occurrencesMiocene — about 21 of 101 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 101 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 101 occurrences396–383 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences383–369 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–211 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences211–198 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences119–106 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences106–92 Mya — about 16 occurrences92–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–66 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences66–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–26 Mya — about 53 occurrences26–13 Mya — about 22 occurrences13–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences382.31 Mya11.7 ka396 Mya0 Mya

101 occurrences of Pseudoscorpiones on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

101 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

8 formations

Escucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WEscucha — 40.80°N, 0.81°WBarstow — 34.94°N, 116.83°WMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°WForemost — 49.83°N, 111.70°WPanther Mountain — 42.43°N, 74.43°WDunstan — 45.48°S, 169.31°EPomahaka — 46.01°S, 169.24°EProtopivka — 49.18°N, 37.05°E

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The named rock units Pseudoscorpiones has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 89 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pseudoscorpiones and its relatives

Eocene

Where Pseudoscorpiones and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,719 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Pseudoscorpiones, 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

45 references

Each of the 101 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. 33 further references are not listed. 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 Pseudoscorpiones

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Pseudoscorpiones 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 itHaplocnemata through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Latreille 1817