Sosybius
No picture of Sosybius 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 Sosybius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SosybiiniPBDB
- 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.
33 occurrences of Sosybius 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
33 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.
Sosybius and its relatives
EoceneWhere Sosybius and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
2,781 taxa- Gesomyrmex hoernesi8 sites
- Ctenobethylus goepperti7 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea7 sites
- Plagiolepis klinsmanni7 sites
- Prenolepis henschei7 sites
- Segestria7 sites
- Yantaromyrmex geinitzi7 sites
- Dolichoderus tertiarius6 sites
- Eocamponotus mengei6 sites
- Episinus longimanus6 sites
- Formica flori6 sites
- Gorgopsina frenata6 sites
- Lasius schiefferdeckeri6 sites
- Pachycondyla succinea6 sites
- Acrometa cristata5 sites
- Adorator hispidus5 sites
- Anniculus balticus5 sites
- Araneae5 sites
- Archaea paradoxa5 sites
- Eocryphoeca gracilipes5 sites
- Holocentropus affinis5 sites
- Hypoponera atavia5 sites
- Lasaeola infulata5 sites
- Lype sericea5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Sosybius, 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
9 references- Fossil spiders of the family Trochanteriidae (Araneae) in Baltic, Dominican and Mexican amber, with a revision of the genus Sosybius Koch and Berendt 185411
- A study of amber spiders6
- Amber Spiders in European Collections5
- Die im Bernstein befindlichen Crustaceen, Myriapoden, Arachniden und Apteren der Vorwelt3
- Footnotes and taxonomic names, in Die im Bernstein befindlichen Crustaceen, Myriapoden, Arachniden und Apteren der Vorwelt3
- Wunderlich, 19862
- Fossil spiders (Araneae) in Early Tertiary amber from the Ukraine1
- Baltic amber spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology1
- Fossil Spiders in the Collection of the American Museum of Natural History1
Each of the 33 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 Sosybius 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 Sosybius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sosybius 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSosybiini through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koch and Berendt 1854