Champsodon

Champsodon is the sole genus in the family Champsodontidae. These fishes, the crocodile toothfishes, are native to the Indo-Pacific region.

Champsodon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChampsodontidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 8 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 8 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 3 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 8 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.8–4.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.3–2.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41.03 Mya5.333 Mya49 Mya2.7 Mya

8 occurrences of Champsodon on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

8 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

3 formations

Maykop — 43.14°N, 46.84°EKhadum — 44.41°N, 40.21°EGutingkeng — 23.00°N, 120.42°E

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The named rock units Champsodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Champsodon and its relatives

Miocene

Where Champsodon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

203 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Champsodon, 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

6 references

Each of the 8 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 Champsodon

Credit
Unknown author Unknown author
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Champsodon 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 itChampsodontidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Günther 1867