Aspidocalyptus castroi
No picture of Aspidocalyptus castroi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aspidocalyptus castroi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AspidocalyptusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Xenarthra
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Xenarthra
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 8 Mya and 5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Aspidocalyptus castroi on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
8 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Aspidocalyptus castroi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aspidocalyptus castroi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Aspidocalyptus castroi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
117 taxa- Chasicotatus ameghinoi7 sites
- Paedotherium minor7 sites
- Pseudotypotherium subinsigne7 sites
- Coscinocercus6 sites
- Doellotatus inornatus6 sites
- Macroeuphractus morenoi6 sites
- Proscelidodon gracillimus6 sites
- Protabrocoma antiqua6 sites
- Chorobates villosissimus5 sites
- Hemihegetotherium achataleptum5 sites
- Lagostomus pretrichodactyla5 sites
- Macrochorobates scalabrinii5 sites
- Pampamys emmonsae5 sites
- Proeuphractus5 sites
- Tremacyllus impressus5 sites
- Hesperocynus4 sites
- Hoplophorus4 sites
- Lagostomus telenkechanum4 sites
- Macraucheniinae4 sites
- Metacaremys calfucalel4 sites
- Thylatheridium dolgopolae4 sites
- Thylatheridium hudsoni4 sites
- Diplasiotherium pampa3 sites
- Euphractini3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Aspidocalyptus castroi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- Advances in the understanding of Neogene mammalian fauna in the Pampean region (central Argentina) through revising “biozone” hypotheses based on new dates and biochronological analyses6
- On the flight capabilities and distribution of the giant Miocene bird Argentavis magnificens (Teratornithidae)1
- Sobre Vertebrados Fósiles del Plioceno de Adolfo Alsina1
Each of the 8 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Aspidocalyptus castroi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aspidocalyptus castroi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aspidocalyptus castroi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAspidocalyptus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cabrera 1939