Cladotheria

Cladotheria is a clade of mammals. It contains modern therian mammals and several extinct groups, such as the "dryolestoids", amphitheriids and peramurids. The clade was named in 1975 by Malcolm McKenna. In 2002, it was defined as a node-based taxon containing "the common ancestor of dryolestids and living therians, plus all its descendants". A different, stem-based definition was given in 2013, in which Cladotheria contains all taxa that are closer to Mus musculus than to the "symmetrodont" Spalacotherium tricuspidens.

Cladotheria

P.Fernandes ( Trebaruna ) · CC BY 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
MammaliaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Mammaliaformes
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Mammaliaformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 119 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 12 of 12000 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 662 of 12000 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3467 of 12000 occurrencesEocene — about 7286 of 12000 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 37 of 12000 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 342 of 12000 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 81 of 12000 occurrencesPleistocene — about 97 of 12000 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 4 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 4 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–103 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 6 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 12 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 5 occurrences90–86 Mya — about 5 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 58 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 64 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 64 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 276 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 600 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 1270 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 2217 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 4679 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 1696 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 410 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 9 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 41 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 17 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 16 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 15 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 11 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 69 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 160 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 108 occurrences4.3–0 Mya — about 180 occurrences119.57 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

12,000+ occurrences of Cladotheria on record. 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

12,000 occurrences read

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. The read hit its cap, so every figure above is a floor and the shares are of the occurrences read. More on what this infers.

Found in

at least 171 formations

Willwood — 44.78°N, 108.97°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.82°N, 109.05°WWillwood — 43.95°N, 107.57°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.60°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.64°N, 108.43°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.39°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.32°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 109.93°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.86°WWillwood — 44.49°N, 108.54°WWillwood — 44.42°N, 108.69°WWillwood — 44.38°N, 108.80°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.63°WWillwood — 44.49°N, 108.81°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.67°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.70°WWillwood — 44.59°N, 108.62°WWillwood — 44.65°N, 108.76°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 41.50°N, 110.60°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 41.22°N, 109.72°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 41.77°N, 110.33°WBridger — 41.13°N, 110.13°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 110.70°WWasatch — 41.27°N, 110.33°WWasatch — 43.25°N, 110.42°WWasatch — 42.70°N, 110.10°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 41.80°N, 107.00°WWasatch — 41.20°N, 110.50°WWasatch — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWasatch — 40.00°N, 107.90°WWasatch — 42.07°N, 109.10°WWasatch — 41.75°N, 108.00°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WWind River — 44.00°N, 106.60°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 41.60°N, 105.80°WWind River — 41.80°N, 107.00°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.33°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 47.10°N, 104.80°WFort Union — 47.80°N, 106.10°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 43.70°N, 108.70°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 46.05°N, 104.48°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 104.40°WFort Union — 41.70°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°WFort Union — 44.50°N, 108.00°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 109.80°WFort Union — 46.70°N, 101.80°WFort Union — 48.50°N, 101.90°WFort Union — 46.90°N, 101.50°WFort Union — 46.59°N, 101.74°WFort Union — 46.90°N, 103.90°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 110.50°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.38°WFort Union — 44.68°N, 108.32°WFort Union — 45.20°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.89°N, 108.93°WFort Union — 43.20°N, 107.10°WFort Union — 45.10°N, 106.90°WFort Union — 45.40°N, 105.60°WFort Union — 43.45°N, 109.16°WFort Union — 41.92°N, 108.56°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 43.20°N, 108.20°WDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WDeBeque — 39.20°N, 108.20°WDeBeque — 39.27°N, 108.18°WDeBeque — 39.70°N, 107.60°WDeBeque — 38.70°N, 107.60°WNacimiento — 36.30°N, 108.20°WNacimiento — 36.31°N, 108.00°WNacimiento — 35.70°N, 107.00°WNacimiento — 36.57°N, 107.97°WNacimiento — 36.18°N, 107.58°WNacimiento — 36.27°N, 107.76°WHell Creek — 47.63°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.12°WHell Creek — 47.62°N, 107.32°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.65°N, 106.65°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.98°WHell Creek — 46.30°N, 104.50°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.87°N, 106.18°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.43°WHell Creek — 47.65°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 47.07°N, 106.92°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 — 47.80°N, 106.21°WPaskapoo — 51.00°N, 114.10°WPaskapoo — 51.90°N, 113.30°WPaskapoo — 53.23°N, 114.70°WPaskapoo — 52.40°N, 113.80°WPaskapoo — 52.30°N, 113.80°WPaskapoo — 52.20°N, 113.70°WPaskapoo — 51.10°N, 114.50°WPaskapoo — 51.18°N, 114.43°WPaskapoo — 52.60°N, 114.10°WPaskapoo — 52.00°N, 114.30°WPaskapoo — 52.20°N, 113.60°WPaskapoo — 51.50°N, 112.30°WPaskapoo — 52.40°N, 116.10°WPaskapoo — 54.80°N, 115.46°WPaskapoo — 54.80°N, 115.80°WPaskapoo — 51.20°N, 112.50°WSan Jose — 36.50°N, 107.00°WSan Jose — 35.70°N, 107.00°W"Wasatch" — 44.50°N, 108.00°W"Wasatch" — 40.20°N, 109.90°W"Wasatch" — 44.00°N, 106.60°W"Wasatch" — 43.90°N, 105.70°WHuerfano — 37.80°N, 105.10°WLance — 43.18°N, 104.53°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.67°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.25°N, 104.65°WLance — 44.94°N, 108.85°WLance — 43.00°N, 104.50°WLance — 43.30°N, 104.37°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.25°N, 104.52°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 43.80°N, 104.62°WGreen River — 41.80°N, 110.70°WGreen River — 40.24°N, 109.13°WGreen River — 40.60°N, 108.10°WGreen River — 41.20°N, 110.50°WGreen River — 42.70°N, 110.10°WGreen River — 41.70°N, 109.00°WGreen River — 42.45°N, 108.60°WGreen River — 40.20°N, 109.90°WNorth Horn — 39.00°N, 111.00°WNorth Horn — 39.17°N, 111.27°WNorth Horn — 39.10°N, 111.80°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.88°WFerris — 41.80°N, 107.00°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.85°WAycross — 43.20°N, 108.20°WAycross — 43.70°N, 108.70°WAycross — 43.90°N, 110.80°WAycross — 44.30°N, 109.00°WRavenscrag — 49.50°N, 109.20°WRavenscrag — 49.60°N, 108.70°WRavenscrag — 49.70°N, 110.10°WRavenscrag — 49.06°N, 102.75°WLower Variegated Sequence — 43.90°N, 110.80°WLower Variegated Sequence — 43.20°N, 108.20°WBlack Peaks — 29.20°N, 103.20°WBlack Peaks — 29.28°N, 103.55°WBlack Peaks — 29.42°N, 103.10°WBlack Peaks — 29.46°N, 103.15°W"Fort Union" (= Lebo) — 46.20°N, 109.90°W"Fort Union" (= Lebo) — 45.80°N, 109.80°WNagri — 32.77°N, 72.50°EHanna — 41.80°N, 107.00°WJudith River — 47.70°N, 110.70°WJudith River — 46.42°N, 109.27°WJudith River — 47.81°N, 109.59°WJudith River — 48.98°N, 110.52°WJudith River — 48.93°N, 110.58°WJudith River — 46.10°N, 109.10°WJudith River — 48.57°N, 109.70°WJudith River — 46.47°N, 109.30°WJudith River — 48.93°N, 110.65°W

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The named rock units Cladotheria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. The read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 147 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,467 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

1,895 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 528 sites for Cladotheria, and this reads 240 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

at least 632 references

Each of the 12,000 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. That read hit its cap, so each count is a floor. 620 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 Cladotheria

Credit
P.Fernandes ( Trebaruna )
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cladotheria 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McKenna 1975