Dasypus (Dasypus) septemcinctus

Damián Ganime · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- seven-banded armadilloPBDB
- Sits inside
- Dasypus (Dasypus)PBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, frugivorePBDB, for Dasypus
- Life habit
- semifossorialPBDB, for Dasypus
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Dasypus (Dasypus) septemcinctus 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
- Holoceneunder 1%
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.
Dasypus (Dasypus) septemcinctus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Dasypus (Dasypus) septemcinctus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Didelphidae3 sites
- Monodelphis domestica3 sites
- Necromys3 sites
- Thrichomys3 sites
- Carollia2 sites
- Cuniculus paca2 sites
- Dasyprocta2 sites
- Desmodus2 sites
- Gracilinanus2 sites
- Macrophyllum2 sites
- Natalus2 sites
- Oligoryzomys2 sites
- Oryzomyini2 sites
- Oryzomys2 sites
- Phyllostomus2 sites
- Proechimys2 sites
- Stenodermatinae2 sites
- Sturnira2 sites
- Thylamys2 sites
- Akodon1 site
- Ameiva ameiva1 site
- Artibeus1 site
- Artibeus (Artibeus) obscurus1 site
- Boa constrictor1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dasypus (Dasypus) septemcinctus, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Dasypus (Dasypus) septemcinctus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Damián Ganime
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Dasypus (Dasypus) septemcinctus 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.
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What may have been alongside itDasypus (Dasypus) through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)