Hapalops elongatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HapalopsPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Megalonychidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Megalonychidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 1.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 17.5 Mya and 16.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Hapalops elongatus 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
7 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Hapalops elongatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hapalops elongatus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hapalops elongatus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
105 taxa- Adinotherium4 sites
- Adinotherium ovinum4 sites
- Cladosictis patagonica4 sites
- Neoreomys australis4 sites
- Protypotherium4 sites
- Protypotherium praerutilum4 sites
- Sipalocyon gracilis4 sites
- Thoatherium minusculum4 sites
- Hegetotherium mirabile3 sites
- Interatherium extensus3 sites
- Neoreomys3 sites
- Nesodon3 sites
- Nesodon imbricatus3 sites
- Palaeothentes minutus3 sites
- Perimys erutus3 sites
- Protypotherium australe3 sites
- Spaniomys riparius3 sites
- Tetramerorhinus lucarius3 sites
- Acarechimys minutissimus2 sites
- Acaremyidae2 sites
- Acdestis oweni2 sites
- Astrapotherium2 sites
- Astrapotherium magnum2 sites
- Borhyaena tuberata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Hapalops elongatus, 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
4 references- Early Miocene Sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora) From the Río Santa Cruz Valley (Southern Patagonia, Argentina), Ameghino, 1887 Revisited2
- Paleobiology of the Santacrucian sloths and anteaters (Xenarthra, Pilosa)2
- Bioestratigrafía de la Formación Santa Cruz (Mioceno Inferior) en el extremo sudeste de la Patagonia2
- Vertebrados continentales del Mioceno inferior de Magallanes, Chile1
Each of the 7 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 Hapalops elongatus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hapalops elongatus 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 itHapalops through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1891