Sosybius rufa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SosybiusPBDB
- 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.
3 occurrences of Sosybius rufa 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
3 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 rufa and its relatives
EoceneWhere Sosybius rufa and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
541 taxa- Eomysmena oculata3 sites
- Orchestina baltica3 sites
- Protocamilla succini3 sites
- Acrometa cristata2 sites
- Araneae2 sites
- Bolbomyia loewi2 sites
- Boreallodape baltica2 sites
- Electroleria alacris2 sites
- Eocryphoeca gracilipes2 sites
- Eolinus succineus2 sites
- Episinus longimanus2 sites
- Episinus pulcher2 sites
- Ero permunda2 sites
- Eustaloides setosus2 sites
- Gesomyrmex hoernesi2 sites
- Glyptapis fuscula2 sites
- Insecutor aculeatus2 sites
- Kroeberiella pinguis2 sites
- Melikertes (Melikertes) proavus2 sites
- Melikertes (Melikertes) stilbonotus2 sites
- Misumena samlandica2 sites
- Nylanderia pygmaea2 sites
- Pachycondyla succinea2 sites
- Palaeosphegina elegantula2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Sosybius rufa, 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
3 references- Amber Spiders in European Collections1
- Fossil Spiders in the Collection of the American Museum of Natural History1
- A study of amber spiders1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Sosybius rufa 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 rufa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sosybius rufa 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.
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What may have been alongside itSosybius through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Petrunkevitch 1942)