Caimaninae

A picture published with the record for Caimaninae. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AlligatoridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Crocodylia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 137 of 377 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 16 of 377 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 12 of 377 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 17 of 377 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 174 of 377 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 377 occurrencesPleistocene — about 15 of 377 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–80 Mya — about 7 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 7 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 7 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 38 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 57 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 23 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 5 occurrences61–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 7 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 5 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 4 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 14 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 30 occurrences13–9.6 Mya — about 57 occurrences9.6–6.4 Mya — about 55 occurrences6.4–3.2 Mya — about 17 occurrences3.2–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences89.8 Mya129 ka96 Mya0 Mya

377 occurrences of Caimaninae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

377 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

64 formations

Hell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.10°N, 103.30°WHell Creek — 45.98°N, 103.75°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.18°N, 103.84°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.02°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 45.94°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 47.68°N, 106.43°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.62°N, 107.32°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.98°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.58°N, 106.30°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.25°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.43°WHell Creek — 47.53°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.07°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 46.90°N, 101.50°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WHell Creek — 47.95°N, 105.63°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.50°WHell Creek — 45.66°N, 105.08°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WHell Creek — 45.64°N, 103.49°WHell Creek — 45.53°N, 101.63°WHell Creek — 45.00°N, 103.19°WUrumaco — 11.22°N, 70.24°WUrumaco — 11.24°N, 70.31°WUrumaco — 11.27°N, 70.22°WUrumaco — 11.38°N, 69.93°WUrumaco — 11.17°S, 70.30°WPebas — 3.99°S, 73.17°WPebas — 4.01°S, 73.37°WPebas — 4.30°S, 73.46°WPebas — 7.36°S, 74.96°WPebas — 2.81°S, 73.55°WPebas — 3.74°S, 73.25°WSolimões — 8.78°S, 68.90°WSolimões — 10.13°S, 67.81°WSolimões — 8.16°S, 70.55°WSolimões — 9.05°S, 68.77°WSolimões — 10.95°S, 69.66°WSolimões — 10.95°S, 69.65°WSolimões — 10.94°S, 69.52°WSolimões — 10.94°S, 69.31°WSolimões — 9.20°S, 72.72°WSolimões — 8.37°S, 72.81°WSolimões — 11.00°S, 68.77°WSolimões — 8.79°S, 67.50°WLance — 43.30°N, 104.37°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.67°WLance — 43.18°N, 104.53°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.00°N, 104.50°WLance — 43.27°N, 104.62°WLance — 43.27°N, 104.65°WLance — 43.28°N, 104.53°WLance — 45.67°N, 101.48°WLance — 43.49°N, 104.46°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.88°WFerris — 41.80°N, 107.00°WFerris — 41.96°N, 106.89°WPozo — 7.33°S, 74.95°WPozo — 6.58°S, 76.28°WSolimoes — 10.12°S, 66.88°WSolimoes — 8.18°S, 70.48°WSolimoes — 9.07°S, 68.66°WSolimoes — 9.02°S, 68.81°WSolimoes — 7.66°S, 72.54°WSolimoes — 10.94°S, 69.34°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WItuzaingo — 31.70°S, 60.48°WCastillo — 10.37°N, 70.05°WVillavieja — 3.26°N, 75.17°WVillavieja — 3.25°N, 75.17°WAguja — 29.10°N, 103.17°WFruitland — 36.49°N, 108.49°WFruitland — 36.27°N, 108.26°WSalamanca — 45.50°S, 67.18°WSalamanca — 45.07°S, 66.98°WKirtland — 36.27°N, 108.17°WKirtland — 36.34°N, 108.08°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.10°N, 108.03°WEntre Rios — 33.72°S, 59.25°WCulebra — 9.05°N, 79.66°WCulebra — 9.02°N, 79.62°WCucaracha — 9.05°N, 79.65°WCucaracha — 9.03°N, 79.64°WLa Victoria — 3.22°N, 75.22°WLa Victoria — 3.30°N, 75.17°WSocorro — 11.19°N, 70.15°WMesa — 9.85°N, 63.33°WChambira — 7.32°S, 74.93°WChambira — 7.35°S, 74.95°WSan Gregorio — 11.30°N, 70.24°W

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The named rock units Caimaninae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caimaninae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Caimaninae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,464 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 263 sites for Caimaninae, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

123 references

Each of the 377 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 111 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Caimaninae

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brochu 1999