Rhabdodontomorpha
unranked clade · Dieudonné et al. 2016 · accepted · extinct
33 descendant taxa · 187 fossil sites · 36 formations · 7 countries
Lived when
Cretaceous – Paleogene
137.05–66 million years ago
Found where
7 countries
36 rock formations
Fossil record
187 sites
16 catalogued specimens
Inside this group
Immediate children
- Terminal taxon — no children recorded.
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Facts from the record
- Its fossils span about 71 million years, from 137.05 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.
- Rhabdodontomorpha was named in 2016 (Dieudonné et al. 2016) — 10 years ago.
- Fossils have been recorded in 7 countries and 36 named rock formations.
- 16 individual specimens are catalogued in museum collections.
- This group contains 33 named taxa, including 16 species.
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Data from the Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0).