Chaetophractus

Chaetophractus is a small genus of armadillos in the family Chlamyphoridae. It contains the following three species:

Chaetophractus

Guérin Nicolas ( messages ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
hairy armadilloPBDB
Sits inside
EuphractiniPBDB
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 4.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 25 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 25 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 14 of 25 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 9 of 25 occurrences8.2–7.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.9–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.7–3.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.8–2.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.3–2.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.0–1.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.7–1.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.4–1.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.1–850 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences850 ka–567 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences567 ka–283 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence283 ka–0 Mya — about 18 occurrences5 Mya11.7 ka8.5 Mya0 Mya

25 occurrences of Chaetophractus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

25 occurrences

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

11 formations

Nuapua — 20.75°S, 63.07°WNuapua — 20.87°S, 63.07°WSalicas — 28.33°S, 66.95°WTarija — 21.53°S, 64.73°WLujan — 34.60°S, 59.15°WAgua Blanca — 38.48°S, 61.80°WLuján — 37.00°S, 60.38°WUquía — 23.33°S, 65.33°WLibertad — 34.38°S, 56.18°WChacra La Blanqueada — 38.36°S, 62.15°WTafí del Valle — 26.92°S, 65.70°WSan Andres — 38.12°S, 57.70°W

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The named rock units Chaetophractus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chaetophractus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Chaetophractus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

274 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Chaetophractus, 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

20 references

Each of the 25 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. 8 further references are not listed. 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 content3

Picture of Chaetophractus

Credit
Guérin Nicolas ( messages )
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Chaetophractus vellerosus · FMNH:Mammals:157156

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itEuphractini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fitzinger 1871