Myrmecophaga

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Also called

giant anteaterPBDB

Sits inside

MyrmecophagidaePBDB

Diet

insectivorePBDB, for Myrmecophagidae

Life habit

ground dwellingPBDB, for Myrmecophagidae

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

• Pliocene50%
• Pleistocene19%
• Holocene31%

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.

Where Myrmecophaga and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene. Draw the map

• Coendou prehensilis4 sites
• Panthera onca4 sites
• Pecari tajacu4 sites
• Puma concolor4 sites
• Alouatta seniculus3 sites
• Cervus gouazoubira3 sites
• Cuniculus paca3 sites
• Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus3 sites
• Didelphis marsupialis3 sites
• Eira barbara3 sites
• Leopardus pardalis3 sites
• Oryzomys3 sites
• Puma yagouaroundi3 sites
• Sciurus3 sites
• Tamandua tetradactyla3 sites
• Trigodon gaudryi3 sites
• Actenomys priscus2 sites
• Ateles paniscus2 sites
• Caluromys lanatus2 sites
• Cerdocyon thous2 sites
• Chelonoidis australis2 sites
• Conepatus semistriatus2 sites
• Cyclopes2 sites
• Dasyprocta2 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Myrmecophaga, 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.

• Late Cenozoic vertebrates from the Southern Pampean region: systematic and bio-chronostratigraphic updateDeschamps and Tomassini, 2016 · Palinología del Meso-Cenozoico de Argentina - Volumen en homenaje a Mirta Elena Quattrocchio · book chapter1
• A preliminary assessment of the mammalian fauna from the Pliocene-Pleistocene El Breal de Orocual locality, Monagas state, VenezuelaRincón et al., 2009 · Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin · journal article1
• Skeletal anatomy and the fossil history of the VermilinguaMcDonald et al., 2008 · The Biology of the Xenarthra · book chapter1
• A new extinct primate among the Pleistocene megafauna of Bahia, BrazilCartelle and Hartwig, 1996 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1
• Reassesment of the Pliocene-Pleistocene continental time scale of Southern South America. Correlation of the type Chapadmalalan with Bolivian sectionsCione and Tonni, 1996 · Journal of South American Earth Sciences · journal article1
• El Piso/Edad Monlehermosense (Plioceno) y sus mamíferosTonni et al., 1992 · Actas III Jornadas Geologicas Bonarenses · journal article1
• Central Amazonian Forests and the Minimum Crtical Size of Ecosystems ProjectLovejoy and Bierregaard, Jr., 1990 · Gentry, A.H., ed.1
• An Overview of Research at Cocha Cashu Biological StationTerborgh, 1990 · Gentry, A.H., Four Neotropical Rainforests, Yale University Press, New Haven1
• First Record of Giant Anteater (Xenarthra, Myrmecophagidae) in North AmericaShaw and McDonald, 1987 · Science · journal article1
• Density, Productivity, and Distribution of Mammals in Two Venezuelan HabitatsEisenberg et al., 1979 · Vertebrate Ecology in the Northern Neotropics, Smithsonian Inst. Press, Washington, D.C.1

Each of the 10 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.

What may have been alongside itMyrmecophagidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Linnaeus 1758