Salticidae

Jumping spiders are spiders in the family Salticidae, with almost 700 genera and around 7,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders – comprising 13% of spider species. Jumping spiders have some of the best vision among arthropods — being capable of stereoptic color vision — and use sight in courtship, hunting, and navigation.

Salticidae

Kevincollins123 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
DionychaPBDB
Life habit
solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 84 of 153 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 153 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 60 of 153 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 153 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 153 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 12 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 28 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 28 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 16 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 7 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 10 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 11 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 11 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

153 occurrences of Salticidae on record. 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

153 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

6 formations

Niveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EBarstow — 34.95°N, 116.83°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°ERandeck Maar — 48.57°N, 9.53°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°W

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The named rock units Salticidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 146 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

3,702 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Salticidae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

38 references

Each of the 153 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. 26 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 content2

Picture of Salticidae

Credit
Kevincollins123
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
Spider
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blackwall 1841