Chiniquodon

Chiniquodon is an extinct genus of carnivorous cynodonts, which lived during the Late Triassic (Carnian) in South America and Africa.

Chiniquodon

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 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
ChiniquodontidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 3.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 233.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 12 of 18 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 6 of 18 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 18 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 18 occurrencesLate Cretaceous250–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–238 Mya — about 8 occurrences238–232 Mya — about 5 occurrences232–226 Mya — about 3 occurrences226–220 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences220–214 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences214–208 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences208–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–196 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences196–190 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences190–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184–178 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences178–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences160–154 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences154–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–135 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences135–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–117 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences117–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–87 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences87–81 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences81–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237 Mya – 233.6 Mya250 Mya69 Mya

18 occurrences of Chiniquodon on record. 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

18 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

5 formations

Santa Maria — 29.67°S, 54.37°WSanta Maria — 29.74°S, 52.45°WSanta Maria — 29.72°S, 53.23°WSanta Maria — 29.80°S, 52.78°WSanta Maria — 29.62°S, 53.38°WChañares — 29.85°S, 67.78°WChañares — 29.85°S, 67.72°WChañares — 29.83°S, 67.82°WIschigualasto — 30.14°S, 67.88°WOmingonde — 21.06°S, 16.39°EIsalo II — 22.17°S, 45.00°E

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The named rock units Chiniquodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

43 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Chiniquodon, 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

12 references

Each of the 18 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 Chiniquodon

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Chiniquodon 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 itChiniquodontidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Huene 1936