Orchestina

Orchestina

Julien Tchilinguirian · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
OrchestininaePBDB
Life habit
solitaryPBDB, for Arachnida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arachnida
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Arachnida

Time the record covers

At least 110 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 70 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 70 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 70 occurrencesEocene — about 51 of 70 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 70 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 70 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 70 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 70 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–89 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 39 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 9 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences110.1 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

70 occurrences of Orchestina 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

70 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

5 formations

Escucha — 40.80°N, 0.81°WEscucha — 42.64°N, 2.72°WRaritan — 40.47°N, 74.32°WArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°ELas Penosas — 43.31°N, 4.45°WNaibuchi — 47.44°N, 142.76°E

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The named rock units Orchestina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 64 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orchestina and its relatives

Eocene

Where Orchestina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,520 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Orchestina, 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

22 references

Each of the 70 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. 10 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 Orchestina

Source
GBIF
Credit
Julien Tchilinguirian
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Orchestina 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOrchestininae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith 1882