Candona

Candona is a genus of ostracods in the family Candonidae. The genus was first described in 1845 by William Baird. The type species is Cypris candida Müller, 1776.

Candona

Roland Fuhrmann · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
CandoninaePBDB
Diet
detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Candonidae

Time the record covers

At least 318 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Carboniferous — about 9 of 90 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 90 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 90 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 90 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 90 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 90 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 90 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 90 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 90 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 90 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 90 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 90 occurrencesOligocene — about 5 of 90 occurrencesMiocene — about 28 of 90 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 90 occurrencesPleistocene — about 34 of 90 occurrences330–319 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences319–308 Mya — about 2 occurrences308–297 Mya — about 6 occurrences253–242 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences242–231 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences231–220 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences220–209 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences209–198 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences198–187 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences187–176 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences176–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–132 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences132–121 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–66 Mya — about 3 occurrences66–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–22 Mya — about 4 occurrences22–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 62 occurrences318.6 Mya129 ka330 Mya0 Mya

90 occurrences of Candona on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

90 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

23 formations

Yalakdere — 40.61°N, 29.25°ERenova — 44.85°N, 113.06°WRenova — 45.00°N, 113.07°WRenova — 45.20°N, 112.16°WYuanmou — 24.87°N, 100.94°EKingsdown — 37.04°N, 100.48°WJibou — 47.26°N, 23.26°ELower Ottweiler Schichten — 49.36°N, 7.12°ESt. Mary River — 49.91°N, 112.99°WNeuwieder Becken 3 — 50.43°N, 7.47°EHempstead — 50.71°N, 1.45°WVenta del Moro-Villatoya — 39.48°N, 1.35°WTatrot — 30.73°N, 76.78°EMarfim — 12.93°S, 38.51°WHolic — 48.81°N, 17.17°EKota — 18.78°N, 80.10°EMortuma — 37.90°N, 29.30°EElko — 40.82°N, 115.70°WHeiligenwald — 49.56°N, 11.54°EUntere Ottweiler Schichten — 49.37°N, 7.09°ELower Saarbrucker layer — 49.24°N, 6.99°EOttweiler Schichten — 49.30°N, 6.90°EAlturas — 41.49°N, 120.65°WRoca — 37.55°S, 69.70°WHance — 36.57°N, 84.18°W

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The named rock units Candona has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 59 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Candona and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Candona and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

945 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Candona, 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

39 references

Each of the 90 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. 27 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 Candona

Credit
Roland Fuhrmann
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Candona was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCandoninae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Baird 1845