Megatheriidae

Megatheriidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MegatheriaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 2 of 357 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 69 of 357 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 30 of 357 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 252 of 357 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 5 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 9 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 10 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 9 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 35 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 46 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 177 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

357 occurrences of Megatheriidae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

357 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

82 formations

Ituzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WItuzaingo — 31.63°S, 60.33°WItuzaingo — 31.70°S, 60.48°WItuzaingo — 31.64°S, 60.38°WPisco — 15.44°S, 74.87°WPisco — 15.50°S, 74.80°WPisco — 15.56°S, 74.69°WPisco — 15.55°S, 74.80°WPisco — 12.21°S, 76.38°WPisco — 3.65°S, 80.60°WSolimões — 8.82°S, 72.82°WSolimões — 9.86°S, 71.41°WSolimões — 8.98°S, 72.72°WSolimões — 8.97°S, 72.75°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.42°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.47°WSanta Cruz — 51.60°S, 69.56°WSanta Cruz — 47.52°S, 71.90°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.28°WSanta Cruz — 50.27°S, 70.37°WAndalhuala — 26.68°S, 66.03°WAndalhuala — 26.98°S, 66.22°WAndalhuala — 27.29°S, 66.91°WTouro Passo — 30.75°S, 53.75°WTouro Passo — 29.67°S, 56.87°WUmala — 18.83°S, 66.15°WUmala — 17.08°S, 68.00°WUmala — 17.15°S, 68.83°WUmala — 18.35°S, 67.93°WTamiami — 27.30°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 27.30°N, 80.80°WTamiami — 26.50°N, 81.80°WUlloma — 17.42°S, 68.50°WUlloma — 17.50°S, 68.45°WTarija — 21.53°S, 64.73°WTarija — 21.50°S, 64.75°WLujan — 36.78°S, 59.87°WLujan — 38.57°S, 58.70°WLujan — 34.60°S, 59.15°WRío Mayo — 46.10°S, 71.63°WRío Mayo — 45.98°S, 71.62°WRío Mayo — 46.04°S, 71.28°WCerro Boleadoras — 39.75°S, 70.22°WCerro Boleadoras — 46.83°S, 71.82°WCerro Boleadoras — 47.00°S, 71.62°WCerro Azul — 38.76°S, 62.16°WCerro Azul — 37.37°S, 65.47°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.12°S, 60.43°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.07°S, 60.55°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.28°S, 60.37°WCaloosahatchee — 27.04°N, 81.82°WCaloosahatchee — 26.90°N, 82.00°WNuapua — 20.75°S, 63.07°WNuapua — 20.87°S, 63.07°WSopas — 30.43°S, 56.45°WSopas — 32.05°S, 56.12°WVorohué — 38.03°S, 57.72°WVorohué — 38.12°S, 57.70°WSan José — 34.70°S, 56.75°WVillavieja — 3.25°N, 75.17°WUquía — 23.33°S, 65.33°WCodore — 11.20°N, 70.25°WCodore — 11.26°N, 70.29°WToro Negro — 28.69°S, 68.31°WToro Negro — 28.61°S, 68.24°W

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The named rock units Megatheriidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 58 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 204 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megatheriidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Megatheriidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,884 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 262 sites for Megatheriidae, and this reads 240 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

203 references

Each of the 357 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. 191 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 content2

Picture of Megatheriidae

Credit
Postdlf
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itMegatheria through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1821