Aphantomartus

Aphantomartus

Alexander Petrunkevitch · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
AphantomartidaePBDB
Life habit
solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.9 Mya to 293.52 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 20 of 21 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 21 occurrencesPermian337–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 2 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 2 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 1 occurrence315–313 Mya — about 1 occurrence313–312 Mya — about 1 occurrence312–310 Mya — about 1 occurrence310–309 Mya — about 3 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 3 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 4 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330.3 Mya298.9 Mya336.7 Mya292.7 Mya

21 occurrences of Aphantomartus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

21 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

12 formations

Carbondale — 41.34°N, 88.39°WPennant Sandstone — 51.65°N, 3.24°WGrovesend — 51.79°N, 3.24°WNötsch — 46.62°N, 13.59°EBrooch — 52.66°N, 2.17°WFlénu — 50.44°N, 3.88°ENetzkater — 51.58°N, 10.79°EWettiner — 51.63°N, 11.95°ESaarbrucker — 49.24°N, 6.90°EBerthelsdorf — 51.12°N, 12.50°ESenora — 35.63°N, 95.87°WMinto — 46.08°N, 66.08°W

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The named rock units Aphantomartus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aphantomartus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Aphantomartus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

220 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Aphantomartus, 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

Each of the 21 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 Aphantomartus

Credit
Alexander Petrunkevitch
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aphantomartus 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 itAphantomartidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pocock 1911