Dasypus

Dasypus is the only extant genus in the family Dasypodidae. Its species are known as long-nosed or naked-tailed armadillos. They are found in South, Central, and North America, as well as on the Caribbean islands of Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago. Members of Dasypus are solitary and primarily nocturnal to avoid temperature extremes and predation. They exist in numerous habitats ranging from brush to grassland areas and are mainly insectivorous. The name is derived from the Ancient Greek words δασύς, meaning "hair", and πούς, meaning "foot".

Dasypus

Jerry Segraves ( en:User:Jsegraves99 ) · Attribution · 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
DasypodiniPBDB
Diet
insectivore, frugivorePBDB
Life habit
semifossorialPBDB
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 2 of 104 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 104 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 89 of 104 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 8 of 104 occurrences8.2–7.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.9–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.2–6.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.0–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.8–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.0–3.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.7–3.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.8–2.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.3–2.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.0–1.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.7–1.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.4–1.1 Mya — about 6 occurrences1.1–850 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences850 ka–567 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences567 ka–283 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences283 ka–0 Mya — about 63 occurrences5 Mya11.7 ka8.5 Mya0 Mya

104 occurrences of Dasypus 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

104 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

Bermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WBermont — 27.00°N, 82.20°WTamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WTamiami — 27.30°N, 80.80°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WWicomico — 29.42°N, 82.22°WTarija — 21.53°S, 64.73°WTarija — 21.50°S, 64.75°WNuapua — 20.75°S, 63.07°WNuapua — 20.87°S, 63.07°WLong Pine — 42.38°N, 98.23°WCaloosahatchee — 27.04°N, 81.82°WGood Creek — 34.00°N, 99.80°WFort Thompson — 27.80°N, 82.80°WSilver Bluff — 32.56°N, 80.29°WPenholloway — 32.86°N, 80.04°WTen Mile Hill Beds — 32.98°N, 80.17°WShuler — 32.71°N, 96.71°WSanta Vitória — 33.74°S, 53.37°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WBacons Castle — 38.16°N, 76.83°WMiramar — 38.17°S, 57.65°WGuanaco — 24.26°S, 65.33°WMonte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WSopas — 31.25°S, 57.00°W

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The named rock units Dasypus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 77 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dasypus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Dasypus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,668 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 96 sites for Dasypus, 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

66 references

Each of the 104 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. 54 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 content2

Picture of Dasypus

Credit
Jerry Segraves ( en:User:Jsegraves99 )
Licence
Attribution
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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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What may have been alongside itDasypodini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758