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Didelphodus ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4831681	https://www.gbif.org/species/4831681
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40236	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40236

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cimolestidae : Didelphodus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Hyaenodonta : Didelphodus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Hyaenodonta
superfamily	Hyaenodontoidea	Leidy 1869
subfamily	Proviverrinae	Schlosser 1886
genus	Didelphodus	Cope 1882

Scientific Name

Didelphodus Cope, 1882

Name Published In

Amer. Natural., 16

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Didelphodus	genus	belongs to Cimolestidae	stated without evidence	Cope, 1882
Didelphodus	genus	belongs to Proviverridae	stated with evidence	Scott, 1892
Didelphodus	genus	belongs to Proviverridae	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Didelphodus	genus	belongs to Didelphodontinae	stated without evidence	Van Valen, 1967
Didelphodus	genus	belongs to Cimolestidae	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Didelphodus	genus	belongs to Cimolestidae	stated without evidence	Lopatin, 2006

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 50.3 Ma
Eocene

Last Recorded Appearance

40.4 - 37.2 Ma
Eocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

insectivore (based on Mammaliaformes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals.

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Centetodon altidens ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		17	55.8 Ma Eocene	50.3 Ma Eocene
Deltatherium absarokae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		40	55.8 Ma Eocene	55.8 Ma Eocene
Didelphodus rheos species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Didelphodus serus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Didelphyodus Winge, 1923	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cimolestidae : *Didelphyodus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1882	Didelphodus Cope
1892	Didelphodus Scott p. 311
1902	Didelphodus Hay p. 753
1909	Phenacops Matthew
1923	Didelphyodus Winge
1967	Didelphodus Van Valen
1997	Didelphodus McKenna and Bell
2006	Didelphodus Lopatin
2012	Didelphodus Rose et al.

References

Alroy J. (2002) Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals

Scott W. B. A revision of the North American Creodonta with notes on some genera which have been referred to that group, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 44, 291-323

Hay O. P. (1902) , Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 179, 1-868

Matthew W. D. (1909) The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene, Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9, 289-567

Van Valen L. (1967) New Paleocene insectivores and insectivore classification, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 135 5, 217-284

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Lopatin A. V. (2006) Early Paleogene insectivore mammals of Asia and establishment of the major groups of Insectivora, Paleontological Journal 40 3, S205-S405

Rose K. D., Chew A. E., et al (2012) Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 36, 1-122

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Amer. Natural., 16 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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