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Chactas

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Description

The Choctaw (Choctaw: Chahta) are a Native American people originally occupying what is now the Southeastern United States (modern-day Alabama, Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana). Their Choctaw language belongs to the Muskogean language family group.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chactas, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4656377	https://www.gbif.org/species/4656377
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	286941	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=286941

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Arachnida : Scorpiones : Chactidae : Chactas

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
-	Stomothecata	Shultz 2007
order	Scorpiones	Latreille 1817
suborder	Orthosternina
superfamily	Chactoidea	Pocock 1893
family	Chactidae	Pocock 1893
genus	Chactas	Gervais 1844

Scientific Name

Chactas Gervais, 1844

Name Published In

C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 18

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Chactas	genus	belongs to Chactidae	stated with evidence	Lourenço and Weitschat, 2005

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

0.01 Ma
Pleistocene

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)

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

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chactas

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Chactas adornellae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas aequinoctialis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas alarconi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas barbacoensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas barravierai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas bonito species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas braziliensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas brevicaudatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas brownelli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas campoelisasensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas chabasquensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas choroniensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas chrysopus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas exsul species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas ferruginosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas gansi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas gestroi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas granulosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas guinandcortesi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas hatilloensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas hauseri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas interpuncta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas iutensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas karschii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas keyserlingii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas koepckei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas laevipes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas latuffi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas lepturus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas mahnerti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas maimirensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas major species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas marinae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas mauriesi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas moreti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas oxfordi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas ozendai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas platillonensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas pleistocenicus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	0.01 Ma Pleistocene	0.01 Ma Pleistocene
Chactas raymondhansi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas reticulatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas rogelioi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas rubrolineatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas scabrimanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas setosus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas simonii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas tumaquensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas turguaensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas vanbenedenii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas venegasi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas viloriai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas yaupi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Chactas yupai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Brachychactas Mello-Leitão, 1945	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Arachnida : Scorpiones : Chactidae : *Brachychactas*
Caribeochactas González-Sponga, 1978	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Arachnida : Scorpiones : Chactidae : *Caribeochactas*
Euchactas Mello-Leitão, 1945	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Arachnida : Scorpiones : Chactidae : *Euchactas*
Andinochactas González-Sponga, 1978	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Arachnida : Scorpiones : Chactidae : *Andinochactas*
Chactus	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Arachnida : Scorpiones : Chactidae : *Chactus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1844	Chactas Gervais
2005	Chactas Lourenço and Weitschat p. 180
2013	Chactas Dunlop et al. p. 38

References

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

Lourenço W. R., Weitschat W. (2005) First sub-fossil scorpion of the genus Chactas Gervais from Colombian copal (Scorpiones, Chactidae), Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 89, 179-182

Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 18 - 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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