Turgidodon rhaister
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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 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.
18 occurrences of Turgidodon rhaister 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
18 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
5 formations
- Hell Creek Formation · Montana Group10
- Lance Formation4
- Scollard Formation2
- St. Mary River Formation1
- Judith River Formation1
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The named rock units Turgidodon rhaister has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turgidodon rhaister and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Turgidodon rhaister and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
281 taxa- Pediomys elegans13 sites
- Meniscoessus robustus12 sites
- Cimolodon nitidus11 sites
- Leptalestes krejcii11 sites
- Protolambda hatcheri11 sites
- Didelphodon vorax10 sites
- Cimolomys gracilis9 sites
- Mesodma thompsoni9 sites
- Protolambda florencae8 sites
- Alphadon marshi7 sites
- Batodon tenuis7 sites
- Champsosaurus7 sites
- Leptalestes cooki7 sites
- Lonchidion selachos7 sites
- Paronychodon7 sites
- Brachychampsa montana6 sites
- Gypsonictops hypoconus6 sites
- Gypsonictops illuminatus6 sites
- Mesodma formosa6 sites
- Mesodma hensleighi6 sites
- Myledaphus bipartitus6 sites
- Nortedelphys jasoni6 sites
- Opisthotriton kayi6 sites
- Saurornitholestinae6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Turgidodon rhaister, 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
8 references- Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals8
- Latest Cretaceous mammals of upper part of Edmonton Formation of Alberta, Canada, and review of marsupial-placental dichotomy in mammalian evolution2
- Fossil mammals from the type Lance Formation, Wyoming. Part II. Marsupialia2
- Fossil mammals of the type Lance Formation, Wyoming. Part I. Introduction and Marsupialia2
- Preliminary report on the mammals form Lane's Little Jaw Site Quarry: a latest Cretaceous (earliest Puercan?) local fauna, Hell Creek Formation, southeastern Montana1
- Mammals from the end of the age of dinosaurs in North Dakota and southeastern Montana, with a reappraisal of geographic differentiation among Lancian mammals1
- Mammals and mollusks across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary from Makoshika State Park and vicinity (Williston Basin), Montana1
- A new selachian fauna from the Judith River Formation (Campanian) of Montana1
Each of the 18 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 rhaister
- 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 rhaister 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clemens 1966)