Ephalmator
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EphalmatoridaePBDB
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
16 occurrences of Ephalmator on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
16 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Ephalmator and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ephalmator and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
1,344 taxa- Balticoroma serafinorum5 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti4 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi4 sites
- Lasaeola infulata4 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea4 sites
- Prenolepis henschei4 sites
- Yantaromyrmex geinitzi4 sites
- Ceratopogon3 sites
- Ceratopogon forcipiformis3 sites
- Ceratopogon hennigi3 sites
- Culicoides3 sites
- Culicoides speciosus3 sites
- Cymbiohahnia parens3 sites
- Dasyhelea3 sites
- Eocryphoeca gracilipes3 sites
- Eodictyna communis3 sites
- Eoepeirotypus retrobulbus3 sites
- Eohelea sinuosa3 sites
- Ero permunda3 sites
- Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia)3 sites
- Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) gedanicola3 sites
- Germaraphis dryoides3 sites
- Gnamptogenys europaea3 sites
- Gorgopsina frenata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Ephalmator, 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
5 references- Fossil spiders (Araneae) of the extinct family Ephalmatoridae Petrunkevitch 1950 in Baltic amber11
- New fossil spiders (Araneae) of eight families in Eocene Baltic amber, and revisions of selected taxa2
- Wunderlich, 19861
- Amber Spiders in European Collections1
- Baltic amber spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology1
Each of the 16 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. 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 content0
No picture of Ephalmator was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ephalmator, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ephalmator 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEphalmatoridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Petrunkevitch 1950