Clubionidae

Uncredited · 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- Also called
- sac spiderPBDB
- Sits inside
- DionychaPBDB
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 13.82 Mya.
35 occurrences of Clubionidae on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
35 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Clubionidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
2,900 taxa- Archaea paradoxa6 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi6 sites
- Holocentropus affinis6 sites
- Plagiolepis klinsmanni6 sites
- Segestria6 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti5 sites
- Eocamponotus mengei5 sites
- Lype sericea5 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea5 sites
- Pachycondyla succinea5 sites
- Plectrocnemia lata5 sites
- Prenolepis henschei5 sites
- Tetraponera ocellata5 sites
- Wormaldia aequalis5 sites
- Yantaromyrmex geinitzi5 sites
- Ablator triguttatus4 sites
- Adorator hispidus4 sites
- Anniculus balticus4 sites
- Araneae4 sites
- Cataglyphoides constricta4 sites
- Clya lugubris4 sites
- Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) lobata4 sites
- Dolichoderus tertiarius4 sites
- Eomortoniellus handlirschi4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Clubionidae, 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
13 references- Die im Bernstein befindlichen Crustaceen, Myriapoden, Arachniden und Apteren der Vorwelt6
- Fossil spiders (Araneae) of the families Clubionidae and Miturgidae (questionable) in Baltic and Dominican amber5
- The Tertiary Insects of North America5
- Footnotes and taxonomic names, in Die im Bernstein befindlichen Crustaceen, Myriapoden, Arachniden und Apteren der Vorwelt4
- Tertiary Spiders and Opilionids of North America3
- On extant and fossil (Eocene) holarctic sac spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae), with descriptions of new taxa2
- Chiapas amber spiders2
- Amber Spiders in European Collections2
- A study of amber spiders2
- Juvenile spider riding a bug - phoresy in Baltic amber?1
- New fossil spiders (Araneae) of eight families in Eocene Baltic amber, and revisions of selected taxa1
- Die fossilen Spinnen im dominikanischen Bernstein1
Each of the 35 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. 1 further reference is 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 Clubionidae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Clubionidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Simon 1895