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Palaeocharinidae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4650139	https://www.gbif.org/species/4650139
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	155656	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=155656

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Arachnida : Palaeocharinidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Arachnida : Trigonotarbida : Palaeocharinidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Chelicerata	Heymons 1901
-	Euchelicerata	Weygoldt and Paulus 1979
-	Prosomapoda	Lamsdell 2013
class	Xiphosura
order	Xiphosurida	Latreille 1802
-	Planaterga	Lamsdell 2013
-	Dekatriata	Lamsdell 2013
-	Sclerophorata	Kamenz et al. 2011
class	Arachnida	Lamarck 1801
-	Pantetrapulmonata	Shultz 2007
order	Trigonotarbida
family	Palaeocharinidae	Hirst 1923

Scientific Name

Palaeocharinidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Palaeocharinidae	family	belongs to Anthracomarti	stated with evidence	Petrunkevitch, 1945
Palaeocharinidae	family	belongs to Trigonotarbi	stated with evidence	Petrunkevitch, 1949

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

411 - 408 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian

Last Recorded Appearance

365 - 361 Ma
Late/Upper Devonian

Environment

terrestrial (based on Arachnida)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arachnida)

Vision

limited (based on Xiphosurida)

Diet

carnivore (based on Xiphosura)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Arachnida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

S. Hirst. 1923. On some arachnid remains from the Old Red Sandstone (Rhynie Chert Bed, Aberdeenshire). Annual Magazine of Natural History 9:455-474

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Aculeatarbus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	388 Ma Middle Devonian	388 Ma Middle Devonian
Gelasinotarbus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	10	388 Ma Middle Devonian	388 Ma Middle Devonian
Gigantocharinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	365 Ma Late/Upper Devonian	365 Ma Late/Upper Devonian
Gilboarachne ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	388 Ma Middle Devonian	388 Ma Middle Devonian
Palaeocharinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	11	411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian
Spinocharinus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian	411 Ma Early/Lower Devonian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1923	Palaeocharinidae Hirst p. 460
1945	Palaeocharinidae Petrunkevitch p. 50
1949	Palaeocharinidae Petrunkevitch p. 237
2000	Palaeocharinidae Shear p. 25
2005	Palaeocharinidae Fayers et al. p. 271
2011	Palaeocharinidae Poschmann and Dunlop p. 435
2013	Palaeocharinidae Dunlop et al. p. 121

References

Hirst S. (1923) On some arachnid remains from the Old Red Sandstone (Rhynie Chert Bed, Aberdeenshire), Annual Magazine of Natural History 9, 455-474

Petrunkevitch A. I. (1945) Palaeozoic Arachnida of Illinois. An enquiry into their evolutionary trends, Illinois State Museum, Scientific Papers 3 2, 1-72

Petrunkevitch A. I. (1949) A study of the structure classification and relationships of the Palaeozoic Arachnida based on the collections of the British Museum, Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 37, 69-315

Shear W. A. (2000) Gigantocharinus szatmaryi, a new trigonotarbid arachnid from the Late Devonian of North America (Chelicerata, Arachnida, Trigonotarbida), Journal of Paleontology 74 1, 25-31

Fayers S. R., Dunlop J. A., et al (2005) A new Early Devonian trigonotarbid ararchnid from the Windyfield chert, Rhynie, Scotland, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 2, 269-284

Poschmann M., Dunlop J. A. (2011) Trigonotarbid arachnids from the Lower Devonian (Siegenian) of Bürdenbach (Lahrbach Valley, Westerwald area, Rhenish Slate Mountains, Germany), Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 85, 433-447

Dunlop J. A., Penney D., et al (2013) A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives, The World Spider Catalog, version 14.0. American Museum of Natural History

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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