Tinodontidae

Tinodontidae is an extinct family of actively mobile mammals, endemic to what would now be North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

Menacodon rarus Marsh, 1887, a relative of Tinodontidae — not Tinodontidae itself

Not Tinodontidae. This is Menacodon rarus Marsh, 1887, a relative — both are Tinodontidae.

Marsh Et Al · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
TheriiformesPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Mammaliaformes
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Mammaliaformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 113.2 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 8 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 4 of 8 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 8 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous166–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–163 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–148 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences161.5 Mya121.4 Mya166 Mya112 Mya

8 occurrences of Tinodontidae on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

5 formations

Morrison — 41.89°N, 106.00°WIlek — 55.90°N, 87.96°EBalabansai — 41.34°N, 72.23°ELulworth — 50.60°N, 1.97°WLourinhã — 39.22°N, 9.34°W

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

Tinodontidae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Tinodontidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

201 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Tinodontidae, 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

8 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 Menacodon rarus Marsh, 1887

Source
GBIF
Credit
Marsh Et Al
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Tinodontidae 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 itTheriiformes through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Marsh 1887)