Didelphimorphia

Didelphimorphia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmeridelphiaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Marsupialia
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Marsupialia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 383 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 383 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 6 of 383 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 48 of 383 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 13 of 383 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 86 of 383 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 80 of 383 occurrencesPleistocene — about 93 of 383 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 4 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 6 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 9 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 8 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 7 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 5 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 10 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 8 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 25 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 23 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 83 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 170 occurrences93.9 Mya11.7 ka103 Mya0 Mya

383 occurrences of Didelphimorphia on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

383 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

82 formations

Cerro Azul — 37.73°S, 63.53°WCerro Azul — 35.69°S, 64.67°WCerro Azul — 36.70°S, 64.28°WCerro Azul — 36.08°S, 65.00°WCerro Azul — 37.02°S, 64.51°WCerro Azul — 36.25°S, 65.51°WCerro Azul — 37.28°S, 64.15°WCerro Azul — 35.92°S, 64.87°WCerro Azul — 37.22°S, 63.59°WCerro Azul — 37.37°S, 65.47°WChapadmalal — 38.00°S, 58.00°WChapadmalal — 38.12°S, 57.70°WChapadmalal — 38.15°S, 57.61°WChapadmalal — 38.15°S, 57.62°WMonte Hermoso — 38.99°S, 61.67°WMonte Hermoso — 38.98°S, 61.82°WMonte Hermoso — 38.00°S, 61.00°WVillavieja — 3.26°N, 75.18°WVillavieja — 3.23°N, 75.18°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWhite River — 43.20°N, 107.10°WMuñani — 15.73°S, 70.17°WIrene — 38.63°S, 60.61°WIrene — 38.53°S, 60.60°WBridger — 41.70°N, 109.00°WBridger — 41.80°N, 110.70°WBrule — 43.30°N, 102.50°WBrule — 42.80°N, 103.10°WBrule — 43.90°N, 102.40°WBrule — 43.50°N, 101.90°WEpecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°WBotucatu — 29.56°S, 51.40°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WItuzaingo — 31.63°S, 60.33°WSolimões — 8.30°S, 70.44°WLa Victoria — 3.30°N, 75.13°WLa Victoria — 3.31°N, 75.16°WAndalhuala — 26.68°S, 66.03°WAndalhuala — 26.82°S, 66.06°WPozo — 7.33°S, 74.95°WPebas — 7.36°S, 74.96°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.71°WLa Huertita — 34.91°S, 68.50°WSopas — 31.25°S, 57.00°WSopas — 30.98°S, 57.52°WSopas — 31.50°S, 57.53°WIron Springs — 37.90°N, 112.74°WIron Springs — 37.28°N, 113.41°WFriars — 32.94°N, 117.08°WSespe — 34.30°N, 119.00°WChadron — 43.30°N, 102.50°WChadron — 42.00°N, 104.20°W

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The named rock units Didelphimorphia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 58 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 142 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Didelphimorphia and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Didelphimorphia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3,004 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 225 sites for Didelphimorphia, 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

141 references

Each of the 383 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. 129 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 Didelphimorphia

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 Didelphimorphia 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 itAmeridelphia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gill 1872)