Lestodelphys halli

The Patagonian opossum (Lestodelphys halli) is the sole species in genus Lestodelphys.

Lestodelphys halli

Chermundy · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
LestodelphysPBDB
Diet
omnivore, carnivorePBDB, for Didelphidae
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Didelphidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Didelphidae

Time the record covers

At most 400 thousand years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 400 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Pleistocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 3 of 5 occurrences420 ka–390 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390 ka–360 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences360 ka–330 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences330 ka–300 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300 ka–270 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270 ka–240 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences240 ka–210 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210 ka–180 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences180 ka–150 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150 ka–120 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120 ka–90 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90 ka–60 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60 ka–30 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences900 ka0 Mya

5 occurrences of Lestodelphys halli on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

5 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.

Lestodelphys halli and its relatives

Holocene

Where Lestodelphys halli and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.

Found in the same rock

30 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Lestodelphys halli, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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 Lestodelphys halli

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

No 3D scan of Lestodelphys halli 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 itLestodelphys through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thomas 1921