Captorhinidae

Captorhinidae is an extinct family of tetrapods, traditionally considered primitive reptiles, known from the late Carboniferous to the Late Permian. They had a cosmopolitan distribution across Pangea. They ecologically ranged from small carnivores to large herbivores.

Captorhinidae

Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
EureptiliaPBDB
Diet
insectivore, herbivorePBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Environment
terrestrialPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 227.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 162 occurrencesPermian — about 160 of 162 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 162 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 162 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 162 occurrencesLate Triassic305–303 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences300–297 Mya — about 2 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 3 occurrences295–292 Mya — about 3 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 5 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 10 occurrences287–284 Mya — about 11 occurrences284–281 Mya — about 21 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 24 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 25 occurrences276–273 Mya — about 19 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 6 occurrences271–268 Mya — about 6 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 4 occurrences266–263 Mya — about 2 occurrences263–260 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 5 occurrences258–255 Mya — about 6 occurrences255–252 Mya — about 6 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences239–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences234–231 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences231–228 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences228–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298.9 Mya237 Mya305 Mya226 Mya

162 occurrences of Captorhinidae on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

162 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

37 formations

Vale — 33.73°N, 99.56°WVale — 33.76°N, 99.37°WVale — 33.74°N, 99.41°WVale — 33.76°N, 99.55°WVale — 33.60°N, 99.25°WVale — 32.13°N, 99.75°WVale — 32.23°N, 99.83°WArroyo — 33.80°N, 99.24°WArroyo — 33.76°N, 99.14°WArroyo — 33.71°N, 99.31°WArroyo — 33.59°N, 99.26°WArroyo — 33.75°N, 99.32°WSan Angelo — 33.72°N, 99.91°WSan Angelo — 34.10°N, 99.73°WSan Angelo — 33.62°N, 99.93°WSan Angelo — 33.69°N, 99.95°WSan Angelo — 33.52°N, 99.96°WWaggoner Ranch — 33.73°N, 99.09°WWaggoner Ranch — 33.76°N, 99.14°WWaggoner Ranch — 34.01°N, 98.97°WWaggoner Ranch — 34.01°N, 98.92°WChickasha — 35.97°N, 98.32°WChickasha — 36.00°N, 98.38°WChickasha — 35.90°N, 98.21°WChickasha — 35.82°N, 98.13°WHennessey — 34.19°N, 98.79°WHennessey — 35.17°N, 97.37°WHennessey — 35.95°N, 97.58°WHennessey — 35.14°N, 97.36°WAbo/Cutler — 36.16°N, 106.64°WAbo/Cutler — 36.18°N, 106.68°WAbo/Cutler — 34.17°N, 106.75°WWellington — 36.16°N, 97.34°WWellington — 36.74°N, 97.42°WWellington — 36.30°N, 97.30°WIkakern — 30.84°N, 9.08°WIkakern — 30.85°N, 9.00°WChoza — 33.82°N, 99.56°WMoradi — 18.51°N, 7.53°EMoradi — 18.78°N, 7.20°EMoradi — 18.34°N, 7.66°EGarber Sandstone — 34.53°N, 98.89°WGarber Sandstone — 34.58°N, 98.85°WPetrolia — 33.67°N, 98.97°WPetrolia — 33.64°N, 98.90°WArcher City — 33.58°N, 98.65°WArcher City — 33.45°N, 98.78°WBelebei — 56.69°N, 50.63°EBelebei — 55.72°N, 51.40°ELueders — 33.75°N, 99.12°WLueders — 33.75°N, 99.15°WGarber — 36.66°N, 97.69°WCarapacha — 38.19°S, 65.91°WFlowerpot — 35.67°N, 97.99°WCalhoun Shale — 37.99°N, 96.11°WMadumabisa Mudstone — 18.12°S, 28.20°ETeekloof — 31.92°S, 22.40°EPutnam — 33.61°N, 98.43°WInta — 66.03°N, 60.05°E

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The named rock units Captorhinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Captorhinidae and its relatives

Permian

Where Captorhinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

272 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Captorhinidae, 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

66 references

Each of the 162 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. 54 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 Captorhinidae

Credit
Didier Descouens
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Captorhinidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Case 1911)