Glyptotherium texanum

Glyptotherium texanum

Charles Robert Knight (1874 — 1953) · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
Sits inside
GlyptotheriumPBDB
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 400 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 1.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 0 of 34 occurrencesPliocene — about 13 of 34 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 21 of 34 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 34 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.5–4.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.3–4.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.1–3.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.9–3.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.7–3.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.5–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.9–2.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.7–2.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.5–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8 Mya – 1.4 Mya5.8 Mya0 Mya

34 occurrences of Glyptotherium texanum 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

34 occurrences

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

St. David — 32.00°N, 110.20°WTamiami — 27.30°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 27.30°N, 80.80°WTamiami — 27.78°N, 82.68°WGila Conglomerate — 32.58°N, 109.48°WGila Conglomerate — 32.70°N, 109.00°WBlanco — 33.82°N, 101.20°WBlanco — 33.70°N, 101.10°WLove — 31.50°N, 105.20°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.03°N, 100.75°WCaloosahatchee — 27.04°N, 81.82°WSeymour — 33.75°N, 99.50°WTule — 34.50°N, 101.30°WSierra Ladrones — 35.10°N, 106.80°WCamp Rice — 32.65°N, 107.23°W

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The named rock units Glyptotherium texanum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glyptotherium texanum and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Glyptotherium texanum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

315 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Glyptotherium texanum, 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

26 references

Each of the 34 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. 14 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 Glyptotherium texanum

Credit
Charles Robert Knight (1874 — 1953)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGlyptotherium through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Osborn 1903