Araneoidea

Araneoidea is a taxon of araneomorph spiders, termed "araneoids", treated as a superfamily. As with many such groups, its circumscription has varied; in particular some families that had at one time been moved to the Palpimanoidea have more recently been restored to Araneoidea. A 2014 treatment includes 18 families, with the araneoids making up about 26% of the total number of known spider species; a 2016 treatment includes essentially the same taxa, but now divided into 17 families.

Araneoidea

André Karwath aka Aka · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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
EntelegynaePBDB
Life habit
solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida

Time the record covers

At least 154 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 975 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 975 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 17 of 975 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 65 of 975 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 975 occurrencesEocene — about 707 of 975 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 975 occurrencesMiocene — about 146 of 975 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 975 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 975 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–152 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences129–124 Mya — about 5 occurrences124–118 Mya — about 6 occurrences118–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences107–101 Mya — about 3 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 44 occurrences96–90 Mya — about 17 occurrences90–84 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences84–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–73 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences73–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 701 occurrences34–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–22 Mya — about 9 occurrences22–17 Mya — about 84 occurrences17–11 Mya — about 60 occurrences5.6–0 Mya — about 29 occurrences154.8 Mya11.7 ka169 Mya0 Mya

975 occurrences of Araneoidea 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

975 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

22 formations

Florissant — 38.92°N, 105.28°WShanwang — 36.55°N, 118.71°EYixian — 41.19°N, 119.21°EYixian — 41.62°N, 120.83°EUpper Freshwater-Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EGreen River — 39.23°N, 108.22°WGreen River — 41.56°N, 109.55°WEscucha — 40.80°N, 0.81°WEscucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WRaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WNiveau du gypse d'Aix — 43.52°N, 5.45°EZaza — 53.30°N, 112.09°EKabaw — 21.68°N, 94.08°EIchetuy — 51.27°N, 108.10°Ela Pedrera de Rubies — 42.01°N, 0.96°EKheta — 71.31°N, 99.56°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°ERott — 50.75°N, 7.26°ELa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°WCrato — 7.15°S, 39.72°WCockfield — 34.35°N, 92.78°WJiulongshan — 40.96°N, 117.61°EBouldnor — 50.74°N, 1.36°WMazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°WPalana — 27.87°N, 72.87°E

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The named rock units Araneoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 905 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Araneoidea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Araneoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

4,706 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 144 sites for Araneoidea, 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

110 references

Each of the 975 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. 98 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 Araneoidea

Credit
André Karwath aka Aka
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Araneoidea 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

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 itEntelegynae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Simon 1895