Didelphodon

Didelphodon is a genus of extinct metatherian mammal from the Late Cretaceous of North America.

Didelphodon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StagodontidaePBDB
Diet
durophagePBDB
Life habit
aquaticPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Stagodontidae

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 96 of 96 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 96 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 7 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 9 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 9 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 9 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 9 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 9 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 9 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 9 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 9 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 9 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences84.1 Mya65.5 Mya

96 occurrences of Didelphodon 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

96 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

9 formations

Hell Creek — 47.62°N, 107.32°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.98°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.65°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 47.07°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.63°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 47.10°N, 104.80°WHell Creek — 47.73°N, 106.50°WHell Creek — 45.40°N, 105.60°WHell Creek — 46.10°N, 103.30°WHell Creek — 47.53°N, 106.88°WHell Creek — 47.68°N, 106.43°WHell Creek — 46.90°N, 101.50°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.28°WHell Creek — 45.98°N, 103.75°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 45.85°N, 104.83°WHell Creek — 47.70°N, 106.58°WHell Creek — 45.66°N, 105.08°WHell Creek — 46.32°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.18°N, 103.75°WHell Creek — 45.00°N, 103.19°WLance — 43.18°N, 104.53°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.25°N, 104.65°WLance — 43.00°N, 104.50°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.25°N, 104.52°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 43.80°N, 104.62°WScollard — 51.91°N, 112.97°WScollard — 51.80°N, 113.00°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.60°N, 112.50°WHorseshoe Canyon — 52.28°N, 112.15°WFrenchman — 49.30°N, 108.40°WFrenchman — 49.20°N, 109.20°WMarshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WSt. Mary River — 49.91°N, 112.99°WFox Hills — 44.50°N, 102.30°WWapiti — 55.25°N, 118.51°W

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

Didelphodon and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

422 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 85 sites for Didelphodon, 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

29 references

Each of the 96 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. 17 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 content3

Picture of Didelphodon

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

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Didelphodon vorax · uwbm:94500

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
kenchoo
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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Smithsonian Open Access was 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. Marsh 1889