Astegotherium
No picture of Astegotherium was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Astegotherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DasypodidaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Dasypodidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Dasypodidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
4 occurrences of Astegotherium on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
These 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
1 formation
- Geste Formation · Pastos Grande Group2
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The named rock units Astegotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Astegotherium and its relatives
EoceneWhere Astegotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
117 taxa- Archaeopithecus rogeri2 sites
- Asmithwoodwardia subtrigona2 sites
- Edvardotrouessartia sola2 sites
- Henricosbornia lophodonta2 sites
- Isotemnidae2 sites
- Isotemnus2 sites
- Notostylops2 sites
- Notoungulata2 sites
- Oldfieldthomasiidae2 sites
- Parutaetus punaensis2 sites
- Prostegotherium2 sites
- Pucatherium parvum2 sites
- Punadolops alonsoi2 sites
- Punahyrax bondesioi2 sites
- Punapithecus minor2 sites
- Utaetus2 sites
- ? Amilnedwardsiidae <gen. et sp. indet. H>1 site
- Acoelodus debilitatus1 site
- Acoelodus oppositus1 site
- Acoelodus terminalis1 site
- Acoelohyrax coronatus1 site
- Albertogaudrya unica1 site
- Amphidolops1 site
- Amphidolops intermedius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Astegotherium, 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
4 references- Diversity of cingulate xenarthrans in the middle–late Eocene of Northwestern Argentina1
- Eocene vertebrates of northwest Argentina: annotated list1
- New Early Eocene mammalian fauna from western Patagonia, Argentina1
- The beginning of the age of mammals in South America. Part I1
Each of the 4 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
Media content0
No picture of Astegotherium was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Astegotherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Astegotherium was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDasypodidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1902