Sparassodonta

Sparassodonta

Uncredited · 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
MarsupialiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Theria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 330 occurrencesPaleocene — about 4 of 330 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 39 of 330 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 37 of 330 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 237 of 330 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 330 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 330 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 9 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 5 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 8 occurrences28–25 Mya — about 12 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 11 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 12 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 16 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 104 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 56 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 18 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 15 occurrences10–7.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences7.9–5.7 Mya — about 10 occurrences5.7–3.5 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.5–1.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences61.66 Mya3.6 Mya67 Mya1 Mya

330 occurrences of Sparassodonta on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

330 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

48 formations

Santa Cruz — 51.02°S, 69.15°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WSanta Cruz — 50.32°S, 68.90°WSanta Cruz — 50.60°S, 69.08°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.42°WSanta Cruz — 50.05°S, 70.44°WSanta Cruz — 50.35°S, 69.03°WSanta Cruz — 48.52°S, 69.72°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.47°WSanta Cruz — 50.55°S, 69.22°WSanta Cruz — 50.00°S, 70.00°WSanta Cruz — 51.05°S, 69.13°WSanta Cruz — 50.43°S, 69.08°WSanta Cruz — 50.05°S, 71.78°WSanta Cruz — 47.50°S, 71.88°WSanta Cruz — 50.75°S, 69.18°WSanta Cruz — 51.33°S, 69.02°WSanta Cruz — 50.85°S, 69.13°WSanta Cruz — 51.35°S, 69.00°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.28°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.22°WSanta Cruz — 50.16°S, 69.68°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.67°WSarmiento — 45.23°S, 67.49°WSarmiento — 44.67°S, 68.42°WSarmiento — 44.42°S, 68.67°WSarmiento — 45.33°S, 68.00°WSarmiento — 46.68°S, 68.35°WSarmiento — 44.50°S, 69.00°WSarmiento — 44.59°S, 69.10°WLa Victoria — 3.30°N, 75.15°WLa Victoria — 3.25°N, 75.13°WLa Victoria — 3.39°N, 75.16°WLa Victoria — 3.22°N, 75.22°WVillavieja — 3.22°N, 75.22°WVillavieja — 3.26°N, 75.17°WSalla — 17.18°S, 67.63°WItaboraí — 22.84°S, 42.88°WAbanico — 34.98°S, 70.43°WAbanico — 34.83°S, 70.50°WAbanico — 34.38°S, 70.84°WAbanico — 34.76°S, 70.59°WCerro Bandera — 38.88°S, 69.47°WRío Frias — 44.58°S, 71.22°WCerro Azul — 37.73°S, 63.53°WCerro Azul — 37.02°S, 64.51°WCerro Azul — 36.25°S, 65.51°WCorral Quemado — 27.23°S, 66.93°WCorral Quemado — 26.97°S, 66.84°WMonte Hermoso — 38.00°S, 61.00°WMonte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WMonte Hermoso — 38.98°S, 61.82°WArroyo Chasicó — 38.62°S, 62.98°WLumbrera — 25.59°S, 65.94°WLumbrera — 25.52°S, 65.53°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WLas Flores — 45.37°S, 67.74°WLas Flores — 45.60°S, 69.08°WLas Flores — 45.40°S, 67.18°WCollón Cura — 40.39°S, 70.21°WCollón Cura — 41.12°S, 70.08°WEpecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°WCura-Mallín — 37.53°S, 71.22°WCura-Mallín — 37.65°S, 71.23°WYahuarango — 12.65°S, 71.32°WYahuarango — 9.49°S, 72.76°WAndesitas Huancache — 42.78°S, 69.86°WPozo — 7.33°S, 74.95°WDeseado — 47.90°S, 66.25°WAgua de la Piedra — 36.55°S, 69.70°W

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The named rock units Sparassodonta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sparassodonta and its relatives

Miocene

Where Sparassodonta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,529 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 127 sites for Sparassodonta, 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

105 references

Each of the 330 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. 93 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 Sparassodonta

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Sparassodonta 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ameghino 1894)