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Boverisuchus — Didelphodon
Published: 2012-08-15 08:57:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 5195; Favourites: 59; Downloads: 192
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As it turns out, Triebold paleontology has discovered an associated skeleton of Didelphodon, and has reconstructed it, Mike Triebold will participate in the formal description of the skeleton, which is good, as I always worry about commercially collected fossils never being described.Anyhow, so it turns out that didelphodon was most likely a semi-aquatic mollusk-eater, like an otter, this is what the skeleton seems to suggest. The skull and teeth are large and robust, for crushing, and the body seems equal parts opossum and otter.
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Didelphodon was more like an otter? Who knew?
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At any given time there was probably many more species of mammals than dinosaurs. There are limited number of species in a genus of large-bodied megafauna whereas smaller animals tend to be more "speciose".
Unfortunately, smaller animals are more delicate and we have mostly incomplete specimens. Paleontology of Mesozoic mammals will be a growing field and will help fill out the ecological profile of the era.
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Just imagine the diversity, very interesting.
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well, crossed with a tasmanian devil, I think.
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Is this the creature that ate the T. rex's eggs in Walking with Dinosaurs?
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How cool is that! Ever since I discovered that the Fossa greatly resembles, in skeletal structure and general features anyway, my Ferilon creations, I always love seeing what else our world may have had in it that could have been nudged a little genetically to produce my little fantasy critters.
>_> of course, these probably never developed wings or horns.
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Welp this discovery screws up my plans for my no kt project... Guess i'll have to use some sort of placental for the canine niches instead
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cimolestes would be a good candidate, one species of which got pretty big, almost as big as this guy.
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Great! That's far of the opossum-badger of Walking with Dinosaurs, actually it's a more interesting animal
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I agree, those big crushing teeth it had could only be for crushing things like shellfish, even without finding the skeleton.
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Were there any marsupials at time that lived like the classic view of Didelphodon?
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Well, afew species of Cimolestes got almost as big, so maybe those.
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What about Deltatheroida?
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What an interesting creature, and very nice reconstruction.
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guess it depends on its biome and if they used colours to attract mates
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