Stagodontidae

Stagodontidae is an extinct family of carnivorous metatherian mammals that inhabited North America and Europe during the late Cretaceous, and possibly to the Eocene in South America.

Stagodontidae

Gregory P. Wilson, Eric G. Ekdale, John W. Hoganson, Jonathan J. Calede & Abby Vander Linden · CC BY 4.0 · 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
MarsupialiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivore, durophagePBDB
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Theria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 130 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 129 of 130 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 130 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 130 occurrencesEocene102–100 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 1 occurrence98–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence94–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–89 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 4 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 4 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 4 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 4 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 4 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 4 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 24 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 28 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 28 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 16 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93.9 Mya56 Mya102 Mya47 Mya

130 occurrences of Stagodontidae 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

130 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

20 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°WJudith River — 47.81°N, 109.59°WJudith River — 48.93°N, 110.58°WJudith River — 46.47°N, 109.30°WJudith River — 46.10°N, 109.10°WOldman — 50.78°N, 110.50°WOldman — 49.30°N, 110.60°WOldman — 50.90°N, 111.80°WOldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WScollard — 51.91°N, 112.97°WScollard — 51.80°N, 113.00°WStraight Cliffs — 37.80°N, 111.50°WStraight Cliffs — 37.60°N, 111.97°WStraight Cliffs — 37.49°N, 111.89°WNaturita — 37.40°N, 111.20°WNaturita — 37.80°N, 111.50°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°WMilk River — 49.10°N, 111.80°WSt. Mary River — 49.91°N, 112.99°WWapiti — 55.25°N, 118.51°WWapiti — 55.07°N, 118.69°WMarshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WFox Hills — 44.50°N, 102.30°WDinosaur Park — 50.73°N, 111.80°WForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°WKaiparowits — 37.80°N, 111.50°WCedar Mountain — 38.72°N, 111.21°WItaboraí — 22.84°S, 42.88°WIron Springs — 37.90°N, 112.74°W

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The named rock units Stagodontidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stagodontidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

702 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 115 sites for Stagodontidae, 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

50 references

Each of the 130 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. 38 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 content1

Picture of Stagodontidae

Credit
Gregory P. Wilson, Eric G. Ekdale, John W. Hoganson, Jonathan J. Calede & Abby Vander Linden
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stagodontidae 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 itMarsupialiformes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Marsh 1889)