Aquiladelphis incus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AquiladelphisPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Metatheria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Theria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Aquiladelphis incus 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Aquiladelphis incus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aquiladelphis incus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Aquiladelphis incus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
76 taxa- Aquiladelphis minor4 sites
- Albanerpeton galaktion3 sites
- Albanerpeton nexuosus3 sites
- Albertatherium primus3 sites
- Cimolodon electus3 sites
- Cimolodon similis3 sites
- Cimolomys3 sites
- Dromaeosauridae3 sites
- Dromaeosaurinae3 sites
- Paronychodon3 sites
- Richardoestesia gilmorei3 sites
- Richardoestesia isosceles3 sites
- Saurornitholestinae3 sites
- Tyrannosaurinae3 sites
- Varalphadon creber3 sites
- Velociraptorinae3 sites
- Acanthomorphata2 sites
- Alticonodon lindoei2 sites
- Amiinae2 sites
- Anguidae2 sites
- Apistodon exiguus2 sites
- Cimexomys antiquus2 sites
- Elopomorpha2 sites
- Eodelphis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Aquiladelphis incus, 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
2 references- Marsupial mammals from the early Campanian Milk River Formation, Alberta, Canada3
- First fossil mammals from the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Formation (Santonian, northern Montana, USA), and mammal diversity during the Aquilan North American Land Mammal Age1
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
Media content1
Picture of Aquiladelphis incus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Aquiladelphis incus 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 itAquiladelphis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fox 1971