Doedicurinae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlyptodontidaePBDB
- 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 4.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5 Mya to 400 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 8 Mya to 11.7 ka.
20 occurrences of Doedicurinae on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
20 occurrences- Miocene10%
- Pliocene75%
- Pleistocene15%
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
- Monte Hermoso Formation4
- Lujan Formation2
- Corral Quemado Formation2
- Andalhuala Formation2
- Uquía Formation1
- Ituzaingo Formation1
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The named rock units Doedicurinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Doedicurinae and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Doedicurinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
390 taxa- Eleutherocercus solidus5 sites
- Chorobates villosissimus3 sites
- Eleutherocercus antiquus3 sites
- Gomphotheriidae3 sites
- Lestodon3 sites
- Myocastor3 sites
- Phlyctaenopyga ameghini3 sites
- Promacrauchenia3 sites
- Promacrauchenia antiqua3 sites
- Thylacosmilus atrox3 sites
- Vassallia maxima3 sites
- Xotodon3 sites
- Cardiomys2 sites
- Ctenomys2 sites
- Doedicurus2 sites
- Eosclerocalyptus lineatus2 sites
- Eosclerocalyptus proximus2 sites
- Equus caballus2 sites
- Glossotherium robustum2 sites
- Glyptodon2 sites
- Glyptodon reticulatus2 sites
- Hoplophractus proximus2 sites
- Lama2 sites
- Lomaphorus corallinus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Doedicurinae, 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
14 references- Biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Monte Hermoso Formation (early Pliocene) at its type locality, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina3
- New remains of Eleutherocercus (Xenarthra, Cingulata, Glyptodontidae) from the Pampean and Northwestern regions of Argentina: morphology and phylogeny of late Neogene Doedicurinae2
- First Neogene skulls of Doedicurinae (Xenarthra, Glyptodontidae): morphology and phylogenetic implications2
- Taphonomic modes on fluvial deposits of the Monte Hermoso Formation (early Pliocene), Buenos Aires province, Argentina2
- Los Gliptodontoideos del Araucaniano de Catamarca2
- The glyptodont Eleutherocercus solidus from the late Neogene of north-western Argentina: Morphology, chronology, and phylogeny1
- Marco estratigráfico, paleontología de vertebrados y paleoambientes del Plioceno de Catamarca, Tucumán y Santiago del Estero, Argentina1
- Late Cenozoic vertebrates from the Southern Pampean region: systematic and bio-chronostratigraphic update1
- Estratigrafía, vertebrados fósiles y evolución tectosedimentaria de los depósitos neógenos del Bloque de San Rafael (Mioceno-Plioceno), Mendoza, Argentina1
- Biochronology and biostratigraphy of the Uquía Formation (Pliocene- early Pleistocene, NW Argentina) and its significance in the Great American Biotic Interchange1
- Reassesment of the Pliocene-Pleistocene continental time scale of Southern South America. Correlation of the type Chapadmalalan with Bolivian sections1
- Mamiferos y Biostratigrafia. Una Nueva Fauna Loval de la Unidad Mamifero Lujanense (Pleistoceno Tardio) de la Provincia de Buenos Aires1
Each of the 20 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. 2 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 Doedicurinae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Doedicurinae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ameghino 1889)