Chaetophractus vellerosus

The screaming hairy armadillo is a species of armadillo also known as the small screaming armadillo, crying armadillo or the small hairy armadillo. It is a burrowing armadillo found in the central and southern parts of South America. The adjective "screaming" derives from its habit of squealing when handled.

Chaetophractus vellerosus

Chaetophractus villosus.jpg : Arnaud Boucher derivative work: WolfmanSF ( talk ) · Public Domain · 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
screaming hairy armadilloPBDB
Sits inside
ChaetophractusPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Dasypodidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Dasypodidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Mass
46.5 gWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 388 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 400 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 1.75 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pleistocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 2 of 3 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–1.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–975 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences975 ka–900 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences900 ka–825 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences825 ka–750 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences750 ka–675 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences675 ka–600 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences600 ka–525 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525 ka–450 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450 ka–375 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences400 ka11.7 ka2.25 Mya0 Mya

3 occurrences of Chaetophractus vellerosus on record. 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

3 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

1 formation

Nuapua — 20.75°S, 63.07°W

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The named rock units Chaetophractus vellerosus 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.

Found in the same rock

65 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Chaetophractus vellerosus, 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

Each of the 3 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 content2

Picture of Chaetophractus vellerosus

Credit
Chaetophractus villosus.jpg : Arnaud Boucher derivative work: WolfmanSF ( talk )
Licence
Public Domain
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

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 itChaetophractus through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1865)