Eoalphadon
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AlphadontidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Metatheria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Theria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
10 occurrences of Eoalphadon 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
10 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 Eoalphadon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eoalphadon and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Eoalphadon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
98 taxa- Anura5 sites
- Albanerpetontidae4 sites
- Cimolodontidae4 sites
- Dakotamys malcolmi4 sites
- Paracimexomys4 sites
- Alphadontidae3 sites
- Cimolodon similis3 sites
- Mesoeucrocodylia3 sites
- Osteichthyes3 sites
- Protalphadon3 sites
- Anguimorpha2 sites
- Bicuspidon smikros2 sites
- Bryceomys2 sites
- Cedaromys2 sites
- Cimolomys2 sites
- Crocodylia2 sites
- Dakotadens morrowi2 sites
- Dinosauria2 sites
- Dromaeosauridae2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Hadrosauridae2 sites
- Lacertilia2 sites
- Meniscoessus intermedius2 sites
- Multituberculata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Eoalphadon, 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- Therian mammals from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) Dakota Formation, southwestern Utah4
- Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) mammals from Cedar Canyon, southwestern Utah, and a revision of Cenomanian Alphadon-like marsupials3
- Late Cretaceous mammals from Cedar Canyon, southwestern Utah2
- Late Cretaceous stratigraphy and vertebrate faunas of the Markagunt, Paunsaugunt, and Kaiparowits plateaus, southern Utah1
Each of the 10 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 content0
No picture of Eoalphadon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eoalphadon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eoalphadon was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itAlphadontidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eaton 2009