Copedelphys stevensoni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CopedelphysPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Herpetotheriidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37 Mya and 31.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Copedelphys stevensoni on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Copedelphys stevensoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Copedelphys stevensoni and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Copedelphys stevensoni and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
141 taxa- Herpetotherium fugax5 sites
- Hesperocyon gregarius4 sites
- Megaheliscomys mcgrewi4 sites
- Nanodelphys huntii4 sites
- Adjidaumo minimus3 sites
- Altasciurus relictus3 sites
- Centetodon marginalis3 sites
- Domnina gradata3 sites
- Eumys elegans3 sites
- Heliscomys hatcheri3 sites
- Hypisodus minimus3 sites
- Leptomeryx evansi3 sites
- Oligoscalops3 sites
- Palaeolagus burkei3 sites
- Palaeolagus haydeni3 sites
- Paradjidaumo trilophus3 sites
- Willeumys viduus3 sites
- Wilsoneumys planidens3 sites
- Cedromus wardi2 sites
- Diplolophus insolens2 sites
- Heliscomys2 sites
- Heliscomys vetus2 sites
- Hyracodon2 sites
- Leptictidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Copedelphys stevensoni, 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- Magnetostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Eocene-Oligocene transition, southwestern Montana2
- Fossil mammals from ant mounds situated on exposures of the Big Cottonwood Creek Member of the Chadron Formation (latest Eocene - Early Oligocene), Sioux County, Nebraska1
- Middle Tertiary marsupials (Mammalia) from North America1
- First Record of Pipestoneomys (Mammalia: Rodentia) from the Orellan (Oligocene)1
Each of the 5 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 Copedelphys stevensoni 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 Copedelphys stevensoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Copedelphys stevensoni 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 itCopedelphys through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1873)