Candonopsis

Candonopsis is a genus of ostracod in the family Candonidae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution.

Candonopsis

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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 100 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 5 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence100.5 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

5 occurrences of Candonopsis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

5 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

4 formations

Nkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°ELagarcito — 32.50°S, 66.99°WSerra da Galga — 19.63°S, 47.45°WPrince Creek — 70.07°N, 151.58°W

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The named rock units Candonopsis 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.

Candonopsis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Candonopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

77 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Candonopsis, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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 content1

Picture of Candonopsis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Candonopsis 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 Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vavra 1891