Acynodon

Acynodon is an extinct genus of eusuchian crocodylomorph from the Late Cretaceous, with fossils found throughout Southern Europe.

Acynodon

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
HylaeochampsidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia

Time the record covers

At most 22 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 21 of 21 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesPaleocene84–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences76–76 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–73 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–68 Mya — about 1 occurrence68–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–66 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84.1 Mya61.2 Mya

21 occurrences of Acynodon on record, most of them in the Late 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

21 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

13 formations

Densuș-Ciula — 45.62°N, 22.78°EDensuș-Ciula — 45.63°N, 22.90°EVitoria — 42.66°N, 2.63°WPui Beds — 45.49°N, 23.09°ELa Posa — 42.27°N, 0.73°ESierra Perenchiza — 39.60°N, 0.97°WAurisina — 45.78°N, 13.59°ELiburnian — 45.61°N, 13.94°EGrès à Reptiles — 43.35°N, 2.95°ESaint-Chinian — 43.36°N, 2.96°ESantibañez del Val — 41.98°N, 3.52°WŞard — 46.03°N, 23.55°ESînpetru — 45.55°N, 22.91°EArgiles rutilantes — 43.50°N, 5.73°E

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The named rock units Acynodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acynodon and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

228 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Acynodon, 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

17 references

Each of the 21 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. 5 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 content2

Picture of Acynodon

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

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Acynodon iberoccitanus · acap:FX2

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 itHylaeochampsidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Buscalioni et al. 1997