Varalphadon

No picture of Varalphadon 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 Varalphadon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AlphadontidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Metatheria
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Theria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 15 of 15 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–84 Mya — about 3 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 3 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93.9 Mya83.6 Mya101.1 Mya71.6 Mya

15 occurrences of Varalphadon 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

15 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

7 formations

Wahweap — 37.59°N, 112.90°WWahweap — 37.60°N, 111.35°WMilk River — 49.10°N, 111.80°WEagle — 48.97°N, 111.82°WKaiparowits — 37.40°N, 111.20°WKaiparowits — 37.42°N, 111.77°WStraight Cliffs — 37.70°N, 113.00°WNaturita — 37.80°N, 111.50°WIron Springs — 37.80°N, 112.81°W

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

Varalphadon and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

181 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Varalphadon, 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

9 references

Each of the 15 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 Varalphadon 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 Varalphadon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Varalphadon 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAlphadontidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Johanson 1996