Glyptodon euphractus
No picture of Glyptodon euphractus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Glyptodon euphractus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GlyptodonPBDB
- 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 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
3 occurrences of Glyptodon euphractus 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene33%
- Pleistocene67%
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.
Glyptodon euphractus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Glyptodon euphractus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Cuniculus paca2 sites
- Dasypodinae2 sites
- Equus caballus2 sites
- Kerodon rupestris2 sites
- Macrauchenia patagonica2 sites
- Palaeolama major2 sites
- Pecari tajacu2 sites
- Tayassu pecari2 sites
- Thrichomys2 sites
- Akodon cursor1 site
- Artibeus jamaicensis1 site
- Bibimys massoiai n. sp.1 site
- Caiman1 site
- Calomys callosus1 site
- Catonyx cuvieri1 site
- Conepatus1 site
- Cuniculus1 site
- Dasyprocta1 site
- Dasypus1 site
- Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus1 site
- Didelphis albiventris1 site
- Eremotherium laurillardi1 site
- Galea1 site
- Galea spixii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Glyptodon euphractus, 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
2 references- La faune de vertébrés du Pléistocéne supérieur de l’aire archéologique de São Raimundo Nonato (Piauí, Brésil)2
- Hypohippidium humahuaquense nov. sp.1
Each 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
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No picture of Glyptodon euphractus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Glyptodon euphractus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Glyptodon euphractus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itGlyptodon through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lund 1839)