Didelphodus

Didelphodus is an extinct genus of eutherian mammal that inhabited North America and Europe during the Eocene epoch. It was insectivorous.

Didelphodus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DidelphodontinaePBDB
Diet
insectivore, carnivorePBDB, for Leptictidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Leptictidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 51.1 Mya to 39.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 63 occurrencesEocene — about 63 of 63 occurrencesEocene57–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 7 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 7 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 7 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 7 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 7 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 7 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 7 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51.1 Mya39.7 Mya56.5 Mya36.5 Mya

63 occurrences of Didelphodus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

63 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

10 formations

Willwood — 44.00°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.50°N, 108.00°WWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.44°N, 108.63°WWillwood — 44.56°N, 108.70°WWillwood — 44.53°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.68°WWillwood — 44.39°N, 108.71°WWillwood — 44.66°N, 108.79°WWillwood — 44.15°N, 107.87°WWillwood — 44.15°N, 107.86°WWasatch — 41.70°N, 109.00°WWasatch — 40.60°N, 108.10°WWind River — 43.20°N, 108.20°WWind River — 43.20°N, 107.10°W"Wasatch" — 44.00°N, 106.60°WLignites de Soissonais — 43.62°N, 5.75°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.05°N, 4.00°ELignites de Soissonais — 49.08°N, 4.03°EDeBeque — 40.00°N, 107.90°WCypress Hills — 50.20°N, 107.60°WCypress Hills — 50.00°N, 107.90°WGolden Valley — 46.90°N, 102.80°WSilveirinha — 40.01°N, 8.82°WBlackheath Beds — 51.43°N, 0.15°E

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The named rock units Didelphodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Didelphodus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Didelphodus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

685 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Didelphodus, 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

26 references

Each of the 63 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. 14 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 content2

Picture of Didelphodus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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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What may have been alongside itDidelphodontinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1882