Glossotherium tropicorum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlossotheriumPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Mylodontidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Mylodontidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 389 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 400 ka and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Glossotherium tropicorum on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Glossotherium tropicorum and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Glossotherium tropicorum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Eremotherium laurillardi2 sites
- Holmesina occidentalis2 sites
- Notiomastodon platensis2 sites
- Odocoileus salinae2 sites
- Smilodon2 sites
- Didelphidae1 site
- Equus santaeelenae1 site
- Eremotherium1 site
- Gomphotheriidae1 site
- Megalonychidae1 site
- Megatherium elenense1 site
- Neochoerus sirasakae1 site
- Notiomastodon1 site
- Palaeolama (Astylolama) aequatorialis1 site
- Proechimys1 site
- Protocyon troglodytes1 site
- Pseudalopex sechurae1 site
- Scelidodon1 site
- Scelidotherium reyesi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Glossotherium tropicorum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- The mylodontine ground sloth Glossotherium tropicorum from the late Pleistocene of Ecuador and Peru3
- Tanque Loma, a new late-Pleistocene megafaunal tar seep locality from southwest Ecuador1
- Les Mammiferes Pleistocenes de la Republique de L´Equateur1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Glossotherium tropicorum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Glossotherium tropicorum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glossotherium tropicorum 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 itGlossotherium through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hoffstetter 1952