Varalphadon wahweapensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VaralphadonPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Metatheria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Theria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Varalphadon wahweapensis 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
4 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Varalphadon wahweapensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Varalphadon wahweapensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Varalphadon wahweapensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Alphadon halleyi3 sites
- Iqualadelphis lactea3 sites
- Paranyctoides3 sites
- Aenigmadelphys archeri2 sites
- Anguimorpha2 sites
- Anura2 sites
- Avitotherium utahensis2 sites
- Chamops segnis2 sites
- Gypsonictops2 sites
- Palaeoscincosaurus pharkidodon2 sites
- Platynota2 sites
- Scincoidea2 sites
- Scincomorpha2 sites
- Theatonius2 sites
- Turgidodon lillegraveni2 sites
- Turgidodon madseni2 sites
- Acanthomorphata1 site
- Albanerpeton galaktion1 site
- Albanerpeton gracilis1 site
- Albanerpeton nexuosus1 site
- Albanerpetontidae1 site
- Albertatherium1 site
- Albertatherium primus1 site
- Alphadon sahnii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Varalphadon wahweapensis, 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- First fossil mammals from the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Formation (Santonian, northern Montana, USA), and mammal diversity during the Aquilan North American Land Mammal Age1
- Revision of the Late Cretaceous North American marsupial genus Alphadon1
- Cretaceous mammals from southern Utah. I. Marsupials from the Kaiparowits Formation (Judithian)1
- Preliminary report on Late Cretaceous mammals of the Kaiparowits Plateau, southern Utah1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Varalphadon wahweapensis 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 wahweapensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Varalphadon wahweapensis 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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What may have been alongside itVaralphadon through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cifelli 1990)