Turgidodon

Turgidodon is an extinct genus of alphadontid marsupial from the Late Cretaceous of western North America.

No picture of Turgidodon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Turgidodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 66 of 66 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 66 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 3 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 3 occurrences82–82 Mya — about 3 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 3 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 3 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 3 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 3 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 3 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 3 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 3 occurrences75–75 Mya — about 3 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 3 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences84.1 Mya65.5 Mya

66 occurrences of Turgidodon 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

66 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

15 formations

Oldman — 50.78°N, 110.50°WOldman — 50.50°N, 110.30°WOldman — 50.90°N, 111.80°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.68°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.84°WOldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WOldman — 50.81°N, 111.63°WJudith River — 47.81°N, 109.59°WJudith River — 48.98°N, 110.52°WJudith River — 48.57°N, 109.70°WJudith River — 48.93°N, 110.58°WJudith River — 48.01°N, 108.91°WHell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.07°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.63°N, 106.20°WHell Creek — 47.10°N, 104.80°WHell Creek — 45.76°N, 104.92°WHell Creek — 45.66°N, 105.08°WMesaverde — 43.20°N, 107.10°WMesaverde — 42.85°N, 107.28°WMesaverde — 44.12°N, 107.76°WMesaverde — 44.08°N, 107.73°WKaiparowits — 37.40°N, 111.20°WKaiparowits — 37.42°N, 111.77°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WWahweap — 37.56°N, 112.28°WWahweap — 37.59°N, 112.90°WSt. Mary River — 48.90°N, 112.80°WSt. Mary River — 48.43°N, 112.83°WScollard — 51.91°N, 112.97°WScollard — 51.80°N, 113.00°WForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°WDinosaur Park — 49.96°N, 110.27°WAguja — 29.32°N, 103.52°WSt. Mary River — 49.91°N, 112.99°WFrenchman — 49.30°N, 108.40°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.54°N, 101.36°W

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The named rock units Turgidodon 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.

Turgidodon and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Turgidodon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

479 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Turgidodon, 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

23 references

Each of the 66 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. 11 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 content0

No picture of Turgidodon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Turgidodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Turgidodon 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.

The description on this site

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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. Cifelli 1990