Eucholoeops ingens

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EucholoeopsPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Megalonychidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Megalonychidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 13.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 17.5 Mya to 11 Mya.
15 occurrences of Eucholoeops ingens on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
15 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
- Santa Cruz Formation14
- La Victoria Formation · Honda Group1
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The named rock units Eucholoeops ingens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eucholoeops ingens and its relatives
MioceneWhere Eucholoeops ingens and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Borhyaena tuberata5 sites
- Cladosictis patagonica5 sites
- Homunculus patagonicus5 sites
- Sipalocyon gracilis5 sites
- Adinotherium ovinum4 sites
- Arctodictis munizi4 sites
- Nesodon imbricatus4 sites
- Prozaedyus proximus4 sites
- Astrapotherium magnum3 sites
- Hapalops3 sites
- Hegetotherium mirabile3 sites
- Interatherium extensus3 sites
- Palaeothentes lemoinei3 sites
- Peltephilus pumilus3 sites
- Phorusrhacos longissimus3 sites
- Proeutatus oenophorum3 sites
- Propalaehoplophorus australis3 sites
- Protamandua rothi3 sites
- Prothylacynus patagonicus3 sites
- Protypotherium praerutilum3 sites
- Acarechimys minutissimus2 sites
- Acarechimys minutus2 sites
- Acyon tricuspidatus2 sites
- Adinotherium2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Eucholoeops ingens, 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
7 references- Paleobiology of the Santacrucian sloths and anteaters (Xenarthra, Pilosa)6
- A review of the paleoenvironment and paleoecology of the Miocene Santa Cruz Formation3
- Eucholoeops Ameghino, 1887 (Xenarthra, Tardigrada, Megalonychidae) from the Santa Cruz Formation, Argentine Patagonia: implications for the systematics of Santacrucian sloths2
- The Status of Eucholoeops fronto and E. lafonei (Xenarthra, Folivora, Megalonychidae) in the Systematics of the Early Miocene Eucholoeops (Santa Cruz, Argentina)1
- Los Nothrotheriinae (Megatheriidae, Gravigrada) del Mioceno de La Venta (Colombia). Descripcion de Huilabradys magdaleniensis, nuevos genero y especie1
- Bioestratigrafía de la Formación Santa Cruz (Mioceno Inferior) en el extremo sudeste de la Patagonia1
- Interpretacion del molde endocraneano de Eucholoeops fronto, un Megalonychidae (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Tardigrada) del Mioceno temprano de Patagonia (Argentina)1
Each of the 15 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 content1

Picture of Eucholoeops ingens
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- Credit
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- Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Eucholoeops ingens 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 itEucholoeops through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1887