Copedelphys
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HerpetotheriidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Herpetotheriidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At least 4.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 29.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 39.7 Mya to 18.5 Mya.
16 occurrences of Copedelphys 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
16 occurrencesThese 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
9 formations
- Renova Formation5
- Cypress Hills Formation2
- Chadron Formation · White River Group2
- Dunbar Creek Formation1
- Sage Creek Formation1
- Brule Formation1
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The named rock units Copedelphys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
325 taxa- Herpetotherium valens11 sites
- Herpetotherium fugax10 sites
- Hesperocyon gregarius9 sites
- Paradjidaumo trilophus9 sites
- Leptomeryx speciosus8 sites
- Brontotheriidae7 sites
- Centetodon kuenzii7 sites
- Palaeolagus temnodon7 sites
- Adjidaumo minimus6 sites
- Mesohippus6 sites
- Micropternodus borealis6 sites
- Aulolithomys bounites5 sites
- Domnina thompsoni5 sites
- Eumys elegans5 sites
- Hyracodon5 sites
- Megalagus brachyodon5 sites
- Merycoidodontidae5 sites
- Oligoryctes cameronensis5 sites
- Oligoscalops5 sites
- Rhinocerotidae5 sites
- Stibarus montanus5 sites
- Trigenicus profectus5 sites
- <Novacek leptictid>4 sites
- Altasciurus relictus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Copedelphys, 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- Magnetostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Eocene-Oligocene transition, southwestern Montana8
- Tertiary paleontology of southwest Montana and adjacent Idaho2
- Fossil mammals from ant mounds situated on exposures of the Big Cottonwood Creek Member of the Chadron Formation (latest Eocene - Early Oligocene), Sioux County, Nebraska1
- Small mammals of the Horse Locality Fauna (Latest Chadronian: Eocene), Cypress Hills Formation1
- Preliminary description of a new microvertebrate assemblage from the Arikareean (early Miocene) John Day Formation, central Oregon1
- Eocene-Oligocene faunas of the Cypress Hills Formation, Saskatchewan1
- Middle Tertiary marsupials (Mammalia) from North America1
- First Record of Pipestoneomys (Mammalia: Rodentia) from the Orellan (Oligocene)1
Each of the 16 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 content0
No picture of Copedelphys was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Copedelphys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Copedelphys was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
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. Korth 1994