Bolodon

Bolodon is a genus of extinct mammal from the Lower Cretaceous of Europe and North America. It was a member of the extinct order of Multituberculata and belongs to the suborder Plagiaulacida and family Plagiaulacidae.

Bolodon

Zittel, Karl Alfred von, 1839-1904 Schimper, Wilhelm-Philippe, 1808-1880 Schenk, August, 1815-1891 Scudder, Samuel Hu… · Public Domain · 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
PlagiaulacidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Multituberculata
Life habit
arborealPBDB, for Multituberculata
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 139.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 9 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous207–205 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences205–202 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 6 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201.4 Mya139.1 Mya207 Mya131 Mya

9 occurrences of Bolodon on record, most of them in the Early 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

9 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

Lulworth — 50.60°N, 1.97°WLakota — 43.32°N, 103.62°WExter — 48.55°N, 9.06°E

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

Bolodon and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Bolodon and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

86 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Bolodon, 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 9 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 Bolodon

Credit
Zittel, Karl Alfred von, 1839-1904 Schimper, Wilhelm-Philippe, 1808-1880 Schenk, August, 1815-1891 Scudder, Samuel Hu…
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bolodon 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPlagiaulacidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1871