Mysmena
Mysmena is a genus of spiders in the family Mysmenidae, found in many parts of the world.
Yucheng Lin, Shuqiang Li · 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
- MysmenidaePBDB
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.
12 occurrences of Mysmena on record. 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
12 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 the same rock
748 taxa- Balticoroma ernstorum4 sites
- Balticoroma serafinorum4 sites
- Cymbiohahnia parens3 sites
- Episinus balticus3 sites
- Episinus longimanus3 sites
- Euryopis bitterfeldensis3 sites
- Fossilanapis3 sites
- Gorgopsina frenata3 sites
- Harpactea3 sites
- Lasaeola3 sites
- Lasaeola communis3 sites
- Lasaeola infulata3 sites
- Lasaeola latisulci3 sites
- Orchestina (Baltorchestina) imperialis3 sites
- Paraspermophora3 sites
- Ruganapis scutata3 sites
- Spinilipus bispinosus3 sites
- Ablator triguttatus2 sites
- Apostenus bigibber2 sites
- Apostenus spinimanus2 sites
- Archaea paradoxa2 sites
- Balticolipus kruemmeri2 sites
- Balticoroma gracilipes2 sites
- Chelicirrum stridulans2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Mysmena, 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
6 references- The fossil spiders of the family Anapidae s. l. (Araneae) in Baltic, Dominican and Mexican amber and their extant relatives, with the description of a new subfamily Comarominae7
- New subrecent species of spiders in copal from Madagasar, and on the relationships of the Copaldictyninae Wunderlich 2004 (Araneae: Linyphiidae, Theridiidae, Ditynidae and Titanoecidae)1
- Some subrecent spiders (Araneae) in copal from Madagascar1
- Some fossil spiders (Araneae) in Eocene European ambers1
- Beschreibung der ersten fossilen Spinnen der Unterfamilien Mysmeninae (Anapidae) und Erigoninae (Linyphiidae) im Dominikanischen Bernstein (Arachnida: Araneae)1
- Chiapas amber spiders, II1
Each of the 12 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Mysmena
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Yucheng Lin, Shuqiang Li
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Mysmena 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Mysmena”
- 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 itMysmenidae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Simon 1894