Lyssomanes
Lyssomanes is a spider genus of the family Salticidae, ranging from South and Central America, up to the southern United States.

Photographed by David E. Hill · CC BY 3.0 · 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
- LyssomaninaePBDB
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida
Time the record covers
At most 9.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Lyssomanes on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
7 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Lyssomanes and its relatives
MioceneWhere Lyssomanes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
225 taxa- Dendryphantini2 sites
- Salticinae2 sites
- Selenops2 sites
- Thomisidae2 sites
- Achaearanea extincta1 site
- Anelosimus clypeatus1 site
- Anisepyris gradatus1 site
- Antillopsyche mexicana1 site
- Anyphaenoides bulla1 site
- Arachnolithulus pygmaeus1 site
- Araneometa1 site
- Araneometa excelsa1 site
- Araneometa herrlingi1 site
- Araneus nanus1 site
- Argyrodes1 site
- Argyrodes parvipatellaris1 site
- Ariadna1 site
- Ariadna paucispinosa1 site
- Azilia1 site
- Azilia hispaniolensis1 site
- Barychelidae1 site
- Bethylidae1 site
- Borinquena parva1 site
- Brachypogon (Brachypogon)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Lyssomanes, 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- Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Miocene Mexican amber2
- Wunderlich, 19862
- Lyssomanes (Araneae, Salticidae) in Oligocene-Miocene Chiapas amber1
- The potential use of amber fossils in the study of the biogeography of spiders in the Caribbean with the description of a new species of Lyssomanes from Dominican amber (Araneae: Salticidae)1
- Die fossilen Spinnen im dominikanischen Bernstein1
Each of the 7 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 content1
Picture of Lyssomanes
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Photographed by David E. Hill
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lyssomanes was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Lyssomanes”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLyssomaninae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hentz 1845