Turgidodon lillegraveni

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TurgidodonPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Turgidodon
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Theria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
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 Turgidodon lillegraveni 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Turgidodon lillegraveni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turgidodon lillegraveni and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Turgidodon lillegraveni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
112 taxa- Alphadon halleyi3 sites
- Anura3 sites
- Platynota3 sites
- Scincomorpha3 sites
- Aenigmadelphys archeri2 sites
- Albanerpeton gracilis2 sites
- Albanerpeton nexuosus2 sites
- Albanerpetontidae2 sites
- Anguimorpha2 sites
- Avitotherium utahensis2 sites
- Chamops segnis2 sites
- Cimolodon2 sites
- Gypsonictops2 sites
- Hadrosauridae2 sites
- Iqualadelphis lactea2 sites
- Lepisosteidae2 sites
- Meniscoessus2 sites
- Palaeoscincosaurus pharkidodon2 sites
- Paranyctoides2 sites
- Scincoidea2 sites
- Serpentes2 sites
- Teleostei2 sites
- Theatonius2 sites
- Turgidodon madseni2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Turgidodon lillegraveni, 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
2 references- Cretaceous mammals from southern Utah. I. Marsupials from the Kaiparowits Formation (Judithian)2
- Therian mammals of the Terlingua local fauna (Judithian), Aguja Formation, Big Bend of the Rio Grande, Texas1
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 Turgidodon lillegraveni
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Turgidodon lillegraveni 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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What may have been alongside itTurgidodon through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cifelli 1990