ANCIENT ENVIRONMENT, FOSSILS, REPRODUCTION, DIET, BODY - 2. view

Didelphodon vorax

“Opossum tooth”

It is a relative of marsupial mammals. It hunted in woody, swampy areas, where it was able to hide from the bigger predators. It liked pinching the eggs of the dinosaurs nesting in the defence of ferns. It could bite with an unusually large force, therefore it consumed harder food as well, such as snails. Based on its anatomy, its lifestyle might have been semiaquatic.