Eodelphis browni

Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930. Brown, Barnum. Wortman, Jacob Lawson. · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
- EodelphisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, durophagePBDB, for Stagodontidae
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Theria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Stagodontidae
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Eodelphis browni 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
3 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
3 formations
- Oldman Formation · Belly River Group1
- Dinosaur Park Formation · Belly River Group1
- Wapiti Formation1
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The named rock units Eodelphis browni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eodelphis browni and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Eodelphis browni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Accuratipollus glomeratus1 site
- Acipenseridae1 site
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Amiidae1 site
- Ankylosauridae1 site
- Aquilapollenites quadrilobus1 site
- Archosauria1 site
- Aspideretoides foveatus1 site
- Axestemys1 site
- Baenidae1 site
- Belonostomus longirostris1 site
- Caenagnathidae1 site
- Champsosaurus1 site
- Chelydridae1 site
- Chirostenotes1 site
- Coriops1 site
- Cranwellia1 site
- Dinosauria1 site
- Dromaeosauridae1 site
- Eodelphis cutleri1 site
- Eusuchia1 site
- Filikomys primaevus1 site
- Gabonisporis1 site
- Gypsonictops lewisi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Eodelphis browni, 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
3 references- Filling the Bearpaw gap: evidence for palaeoenvironment-driven taxon distribution in a diverse, non-marine ecosystem from the late Campanian of west-central Alberta, Canada1
- Cretaceous mammals of Alberta1
- The skeleton of <i>Styracosaurus</i> with the description of a new species1
Each of the 3 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 content1

Picture of Eodelphis browni
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930. Brown, Barnum. Wortman, Jacob Lawson.
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eodelphis browni 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEodelphis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Matthew 1916