Rhabdodontoidea
unranked clade · Poole 2022 · accepted · extinct
13 descendant taxa · 96 fossil sites · 25 formations · 5 countries
Lived when
Cretaceous – Paleogene
125.77–66 million years ago
Found where
5 countries
25 rock formations
Fossil record
96 sites
3 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 60 million years, from 125.77 to 66 million years ago.
- The youngest known fossil is around 66 million years old — that is roughly 220 times further back than the whole of human history.
- Rhabdodontoidea was named in 2022 (Poole 2022) — 4 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 5 countries and 25 named rock formations.
- 3 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
- This group contains 13 named taxa, including 7 species.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).