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Stagodontidae ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	40004	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=40004

Rank

family (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Didelphimorphia : Stagodontidae

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
-	Theriamorpha
-	Theriiformes
-	Trechnotheria	McKenna 1975
-	Cladotheria	McKenna 1975
-	Boreosphenida
subclass	Theria	Parker and Haswell 1897
subclass	Metatheria
-	Marsupialia
order	Didelphimorphia	Gill 1872
family	Stagodontidae	Marsh 1889

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Stagodontidae	family	belongs to Mammalia	stated without evidence	Marsh, 1889
Stagodontidae	family	belongs to Polyprotodontia	stated without evidence	Hay, 1902
Stagodontidae	family	belongs to Didelphoidea	stated without evidence	Clemens, 1979
Stagodontidae	family	belongs to Marsupialia	stated with evidence	Cifelli, 1993
Stagodontidae	family	belongs to Didelphoidea	implied	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Stagodontidae	family	belongs to Didelphimorphia	stated without evidence	Kielan-Jaworowska et al., 2004
Stagodontidae	family	belongs to Archimetatheria	stated without evidence	Fox and Naylor, 2006
Stagodontidae	family	belongs to Didelphimorphia	stated with evidence	Davis, 2007
Stagodontidae	unranked clade	belongs to Metatheria	stated without evidence	Williamson et al., 2012
Stagodontidae	family	belongs to Archimetatheria	stated without evidence	Carneiro and Olivero, 2017

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

105 - 94 Ma
Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

58.7 - 48.6 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Stagodontidae)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

carnivore, durophage (based on Stagodontidae)

Reproduction

viviparous (based on Theria)

Ecospace Comments

Durophagy suggested for Stagodontidae (Kielan-Joworowska et al. 2004)
not aquatic, see Fox and Naylor 2006

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Didelphodon ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	95	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Fumodelphodon ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Hoodootherium ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1889	Stagodontidae Marsh
1902	Stagodontidae Hay p. 564
1902	Boreodon Lambe p. 79
1902	Boreodon matutinus Lambe p. 79
1979	Stagodontidae Clemens p. 193
1993	Stagodontidae Cifelli p. 9415
1997	Boreodon McKenna and Bell

Year	Name and Author
1997	Stagodontidae McKenna and Bell
2004	Stagodontidae Kielan-Jaworowska et al. pp. 443, 459
2006	Stagodontidae Fox and Naylor p. 16
2007	Stagodontidae Davis p. 218
2012	Stagodontidae Williamson et al.
2017	Stagodontidae Carneiro and Olivero p. 357

References

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

Marsh O. C. Discovery of Cretaceous Mammalia. Part II, American Journal of Science 38, 177-180

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

Lambe L. M. (1902) New genera and species from the Belly River Series (mid-Cretaceous), Geological Survey of Canada Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology 3 2, 25-81

Cifelli R. L. (1993) Early Cretaceous mammal from North America and the evolution of marsupial dental characters, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 90 20, 9413-9416

Kielan-Jaworowska Z., Cifelli R. L., et al (2004) Mammals from the age of dinosaurs: Origins, evolution, and structure, Columbia University Press, New York, 1-630

Fox R. C., Naylor B. G. (2006) Stagodontid marsupials from the Late Cretaceous of Canada and their systematic and functional implications, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51 1, 13-36

Davis B. M. (2007) A revision of “pediomyid” marsupials from the Late Cretaceous of North America, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52 2, 217-256

Williamson T. E., Brusatte S. L., et al (2012) The phylogeny and evolution of Cretaceous–Palaeogene metatherians: cladistic analysis and description of new early Palaeocene specimens from the Nacimiento Formation, New Mexico, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10 4, 625-651

Carneiro L. M., Olivero É. V. (2017) Systematic affinities of the extinct metatherian Eobrasilia coutoi Simpson, 1947, A South American early Eocene Stagodontidae: Implications for "Eobrasilinae", Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 20 3, 355-372 doi: 10.4072/rbp.2017.3.07

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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