Candidodontidae

Candidodontidae is a family of notosuchian crocodyliforms. It was originally used in 2002 as a name for a clade that includes the genera Araripesuchus, Candidodon, and Malawisuchus. Later in 2004 the family was formally defined as a node-based taxon including Candidodon itapecuruense and Mariliasuchus amarali. A 2009 study redefined Candidodontidae as a stem-based taxon which included Candidodon, Malawisuchus, and possibly Mariliasuchus.

No picture of Candidodontidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Candidodontidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 7 of 11 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 11 occurrencesLate Cretaceous127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–118 Mya — about 2 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113.2 Mya85.7 Mya127 Mya71 Mya

11 occurrences of Candidodontidae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

11 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

6 formations

Dinosaur Beds — 10.28°S, 34.03°EGalula — 8.70°S, 32.70°ESão José do Rio Preto — 20.98°S, 49.24°WItapecuru — 3.39°S, 44.36°WAlcântara — 2.48°S, 44.46°WQuiricó — 16.52°S, 44.82°W

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The named rock units Candidodontidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Candidodontidae and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Candidodontidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

58 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Candidodontidae, and this reads all 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

7 references

Each of the 11 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. 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 content0

No picture of Candidodontidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Candidodontidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Candidodontidae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itNotosuchia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Carvalho et al. 2004)