Mylodontinae

Mylodontinae is an extinct subfamily of ground sloths that lived from the Early Miocene to the Early Holocene epochs.

Mylodontinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MylodontidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Mylodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Mylodontidae
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 1 of 369 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 47 of 369 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 36 of 369 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 282 of 369 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 13 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 16 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 33 occurrences1.9–928 ka Mya — about 56 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 199 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

369 occurrences of Mylodontinae 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

369 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

71 formations

Lujan — 36.78°S, 59.87°WLujan — 38.57°S, 58.70°WLujan — 34.60°S, 59.15°WLujan — 38.75°S, 60.60°WLujan — 34.64°S, 59.30°WLa Victoria — 3.30°N, 75.13°WLa Victoria — 3.37°N, 75.14°WLa Victoria — 3.31°N, 75.16°WLa Victoria — 3.36°N, 75.16°WLa Victoria — 3.22°N, 75.22°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.12°S, 60.43°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.07°S, 60.55°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.28°S, 60.37°WSalto Ander Egg — 31.03°S, 60.50°WDolores — 34.42°S, 56.26°WDolores — 34.27°S, 55.99°WDolores — 34.38°S, 57.88°WDolores — 34.44°S, 57.20°WPauba — 33.90°N, 117.00°WTouro Passo — 30.40°S, 56.49°WTouro Passo — 29.67°S, 56.83°WTouro Passo — 30.75°S, 53.75°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.20°N, 100.70°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.03°N, 100.75°WRancho Viejo Beds — 21.10°N, 100.80°WTamiami — 26.90°N, 82.00°WTamiami — 27.37°N, 82.45°WTamiami — 27.30°N, 80.80°WTamiami — 26.50°N, 81.80°WTarija — 21.53°S, 64.73°WTarija — 21.50°S, 64.75°WChapadmalal — 38.12°S, 57.70°WChapadmalal — 38.10°S, 57.55°WChapadmalal — 38.27°S, 57.84°WChapadmalal — 38.16°S, 57.62°WSanta Vitória — 33.74°S, 53.37°WSanta Vitória — 33.53°S, 53.37°WKingsdown — 37.04°N, 100.50°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WBermont — 28.80°N, 82.20°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WUmala — 18.83°S, 66.15°WUmala — 18.35°S, 67.93°WUmala — 17.08°S, 68.00°WSopas — 30.43°S, 56.45°WSopas — 31.25°S, 57.00°WTafna — 21.99°S, 65.88°WAlachua — 29.65°N, 82.60°WAlachua — 29.40°N, 82.60°WGlenns Ferry — 43.00°N, 118.00°WCamp Rice — 32.00°N, 106.70°WBlanco — 33.70°N, 101.10°WBlanco — 33.81°N, 101.21°WLove — 31.50°N, 105.20°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WTule — 34.51°N, 101.41°W

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The named rock units Mylodontinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 214 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mylodontinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Mylodontinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,086 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 270 sites for Mylodontinae, 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

182 references

Each of the 369 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. 170 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 Mylodontinae

Credit
Rept0n1x
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mylodontinae 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.

The description on this site

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gill 1872