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Araneomorphae

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	57471	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=57471

Rank

infraorder (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Arachnida : Araneae : Araneomorphae

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
subclass	Tetrapulmonata	Schultz 1990
-	Serikodiastida	Garwood and Dunlop 2014
order	Araneae	Clerck 1757
suborder	Opisthothelae	Pocock 1892
infraorder	Araneomorphae	Smith 1902

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Araneomorphae	infraorder	belongs to Opisthothelae	stated without evidence	Smith, 1902
Araneomorphae	infraorder	belongs to Opisthothelae	stated with evidence	Selden and Penney, 2009

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

2,026

Extant Size (PBDB)

313 (15%)

First Recorded Appearance

237 - 228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

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)

D. Penney. 2001. Advances in the taxonomy of spiders in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Arthropoda: Araneae). Palaeontology 44:987-1009

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Leptonetoidea superfamily	listed (PBDB)		18	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Palpimanoidea superfamily	listed (PBDB)		150	183 Ma Early Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Pholcoidea superfamily	listed (PBDB)		12	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Filistatidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Crevice Weaver	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Leptonetidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Leptonetid Spider	14	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Mongolarachnidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Pholcochyroceridae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		12	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Argyrarachne ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Elvina ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	28.1 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Triassaraneus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	237 Ma Middle Triassic	237 Ma Middle Triassic
Entelegynae unranked clade	listed (PBDB)		1,791	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	0 Ma Extant
Synspermiata unranked clade	listed (PBDB)		279	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1893	Haplogynae Simon
1902	Araneomorphae Smith
1922	Haplogynae Petrunkevitch
1977	Araneoclada Platnick
2009	Araneomorphae Selden and Penney p. 1276
2010	Haplogynae Selden and Huang p. 449
2013	Araneoclada Dunlop et al.
2013	Araneomorphae Dunlop et al.
2013	Haplogynae Dunlop et al.
2017	Araneomorphae Wheeler et al.

References

Penney D. (2001) Advances in the taxonomy of spiders in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Arthropoda: Araneae), Palaeontology 44, 987-1009

Petrunkevitch A. I. (1922) Tertiary Spiders and Opilionids of North America, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 25, 211-279

Selden P. A., Penney D. (2009) A fossil spider (Araneae: Pisauridae) of Eocene age from Horsefly, British Columbia, Canada, Contributions to Natural History 12, 1269-1282

Selden P. A., Huang D. (2010) The oldest haplogyne spider (Araneae: Plectreuridae), from the Middle Jurassic of China, Naturwissenschaften 97 5, 449-459 doi:10.1007/s00114-010-0649-z

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

Wheeler W. C., Coddington J. A., et al (2017) The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling, Cladistics 33, 574-616

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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