Salticinae
Salticinae is a subfamily of jumping spiders. It includes over 90% of the known species of jumping spiders. The subfamily is divided into two unranked clades: Amycoida and Salticoida.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SalticidaePBDB
- 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.
50 occurrences of Salticinae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
50 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Salticinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 48 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Salticinae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Salticinae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,164 taxa- Marpissina6 sites
- Dendryphantini4 sites
- Polydesmida4 sites
- Araneae3 sites
- Dendryphantina3 sites
- Lyssomanes3 sites
- Ablator triguttatus2 sites
- Adorator hispidus2 sites
- Allacrotelsa dubia2 sites
- Anyphaena fuscata2 sites
- Archaea paradoxa2 sites
- Buthidae2 sites
- Caddo dentipalpus2 sites
- Cataglyphoides constricta2 sites
- Clubiona microphthalma2 sites
- Clubiona pubescens2 sites
- Clubiona tomentosa2 sites
- Clya lugubris2 sites
- Clya obscura2 sites
- Cronicus anomalus2 sites
- Cryptoplanus sericatus2 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti2 sites
- Curculionidae2 sites
- Custodela oblonga2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Salticinae, 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
16 references- Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Miocene Mexican amber27
- Die fossilen Spinnen im dominikanischen Bernstein6
- Die im Bernstein befindlichen Crustaceen, Myriapoden, Arachniden und Apteren der Vorwelt3
- Fossil jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Baltic and Domican amber, with remarks on Salticidae subfamilies2
- Description and evolutionary biogeography of the first Miocene jumping spider (Aranaea: Salticidae) from a southern continent1
- First jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae) from mid-Miocene Zhangpu amber1
- Miocene spider Maevia eureka nov. sp. (Araneae: Salticidae)1
- Sub-fossil spiders from Holocene peat cores1
- Paleoecology of an exceptionally preserved arthropod fauna from lake deposits of the Miocene Barstow Formation, Southern California, U.S.A.1
- A new species of Thiodina (Araneae: Salticidae) from Dominican amber1
- Die häufigsten Spinnen (Araneae) des Dominikanischen Bernsteins1
- Fossile Spinnen aus miozänen Sedimenten des Randecker Maars in SW-Deutschland (Arachnida: Araneae)1
Each of the 50 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. 4 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 Salticinae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Kaldari
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Salticinae 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Salticinae”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSalticidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blackwall 1841