Buthidae

Buthidae

Per-Anders Olsson · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
ButhoideaPBDB
Life habit
solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 27 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 27 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEocene — about 12 of 27 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesMiocene — about 8 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 27 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 10 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

27 occurrences of Buthidae 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

27 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

3 formations

Mazantic Shale — 17.15°N, 92.70°WGreen River — 39.72°N, 107.98°WLa Toca — 19.55°N, 70.61°W

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The named rock units Buthidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Buthidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Buthidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,171 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Buthidae, 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

25 references

Each of the 27 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. 13 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 Buthidae

Credit
Per-Anders Olsson
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Buthidae 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 itButhoidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koch 1837