Chlamyphoridae

Chlamyphoridae is a family of cingulate mammals. While glyptodonts have traditionally been considered stem-group cingulates outside the group that contains modern armadillos, there had been speculation that the extant family Dasypodidae could be paraphyletic based on morphological evidence. In 2016, an analysis of Doedicurus mtDNA found it was, in fact, nested within the modern armadillos as the sister group of a clade consisting of Chlamyphorinae and Tolypeutinae. For this reason, all extant armadillos but Dasypus were relocated to a new family. The genus name comes from Ancient Greek χλαμύς (khlamús), meaning "cloak", and φόρος (phóros), "bearing".

Chlamyphoridae

SouthernThreeBandedArmadillo065.jpg : Ltshears derivative work: WolfmanSF ( talk ) · 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
Sits inside
CingulataPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Xenarthra
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Xenarthra
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 29 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 36 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 139 occurrencesOligocene — about 11 of 139 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 127 of 139 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 139 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 8 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 8 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 72 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 13 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.7–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–7.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.4–6.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.3–5.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29 Mya7.246 Mya36.6 Mya3 Mya

139 occurrences of Chlamyphoridae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

139 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

20 formations

Santa Cruz — 51.02°S, 69.15°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WSanta Cruz — 50.16°S, 69.67°WSanta Cruz — 50.27°S, 70.37°WSanta Cruz — 50.36°S, 71.84°WSanta Cruz — 50.25°S, 71.07°WSanta Cruz — 51.33°S, 69.02°WSanta Cruz — 51.05°S, 69.13°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 68.95°WSanta Cruz — 50.32°S, 68.90°WSanta Cruz — 48.52°S, 69.72°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.42°WSanta Cruz — 50.35°S, 69.03°WSanta Cruz — 50.60°S, 69.08°WSanta Cruz — 50.00°S, 70.00°WSanta Cruz — 50.75°S, 69.18°WSanta Cruz — 51.35°S, 69.00°WSanta Cruz — 50.32°S, 72.10°WSanta Cruz — 51.53°S, 72.09°WSanta Cruz — 47.58°S, 71.85°WSarmiento — 45.23°S, 67.49°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.71°WSarmiento — 44.50°S, 66.00°WSarmiento — 44.02°S, 68.02°WSarmiento — 44.67°S, 68.42°WCollón Cura — 41.00°S, 70.58°WCollón Cura — 42.65°S, 69.70°WCerro Bandera — 39.27°S, 69.28°WCerro Bandera — 38.92°S, 69.58°WCerro Bandera — 38.88°S, 69.47°WCerro Boleadoras — 47.00°S, 71.62°WAgua de la Piedra — 36.55°S, 69.70°WGalera — 46.90°S, 72.30°WChichinales — 39.13°S, 67.75°WDeseado — 47.90°S, 66.25°WChinches — 32.00°S, 69.74°WChinches — 31.99°S, 69.78°WSanta Cruz — 50.63°S, 72.47°WCerro Azul — 37.37°S, 65.47°WCerro Azul — 37.14°S, 65.77°WChoquecota — 18.10°S, 67.92°WChucal — 18.53°S, 69.17°WRío Frías — 44.58°S, 71.23°WGuanaco — 24.26°S, 65.33°WTafna — 22.03°S, 65.85°WLoma de Las Tapias — 31.43°S, 68.64°WArroyo Chasicó — 38.61°S, 62.98°WToro Negro — 28.61°S, 68.24°W

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The named rock units Chlamyphoridae 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.

Chlamyphoridae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Chlamyphoridae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

543 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 63 sites for Chlamyphoridae, 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

37 references

Each of the 139 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. 25 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 content1

Picture of Chlamyphoridae

Credit
SouthernThreeBandedArmadillo065.jpg : Ltshears derivative work: WolfmanSF ( talk )
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Chlamyphoridae 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pocock 1924