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Argyrarachne ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4657324	https://www.gbif.org/species/4657324
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	257478	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=257478

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Arachnida : Araneae : Argyrarachne

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
subclass	Tetrapulmonata	Schultz 1990
-	Serikodiastida	Garwood and Dunlop 2014
order	Araneae	Clerck 1757
suborder	Opisthothelae	Pocock 1892
infraorder	Araneomorphae	Smith 1902
genus	Argyrarachne	Selden 1999

Scientific Name

Argyrarachne Selden, 1999

Name Published In

in Selden, Anderson, Anderson & Fraser, J Arachnol 27 (2), 1 November

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Argyrarachne	genus	belongs to Araneomorphae	stated with evidence	Dunlop et al., 2013

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

228 - 209 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

Last Recorded Appearance

228 - 209 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)

P. A. Selden. 1999. Systematics, in Fossil araneomorph spiders from the Triassic of South Africa and Virginia. The Journal of Arachnology 27:401-414

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Argyrarachne solitus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1999	Argyrarachne Selden p. 413
2013	Argyrarachne Dunlop et al.
2020	Argyrarachne Magalhaes et al.

References

Selden P. A. (1999) Systematics, in Fossil araneomorph spiders from the Triassic of South Africa and Virginia, The Journal of Arachnology 27, 401-414

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

Nomenclator Zoologicus (authority adjusted) - 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

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

in Selden, Anderson, Anderson & Fraser, J Arachnol 27 (2), 1 November - 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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