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Calcitronidae

family of arachnids

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ5018794 ↗
Source-derived summary

The family Calcitronidae is an extinct group of arachnids. Its two monotypic genera are only known from Pliocene deposits of calcite in Arizona. The family has been placed in the order Schizomida, but a review of the order concluded that "the fossil taxa ... are so poorly known that final placement must await further study and possibly new material", and they are not listed in the order in a 2016 catalog of fossil arachnids.

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“Calcitronidae” enters the record as family of arachnids. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Calcitronidae, family and arachnids can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Calcitronidae” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.