Palaeopeltis inornatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeopeltisPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Xenarthra
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Xenarthra
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 29 Mya and 21 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Palaeopeltis inornatus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Palaeopeltis inornatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Palaeopeltis inornatus and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Palaeopeltis inornatus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
89 taxa- Incamys bolivianus2 sites
- Meteutatus lagenaformis2 sites
- Peltephilus undulatus2 sites
- Stenotatus2 sites
- Acarechimys leucotheae1 site
- Acdestodon bonapartei1 site
- Acdestoides praecursor1 site
- Ancylocoelus frequens1 site
- Andrewsornis1 site
- Archaeohyracidae1 site
- Archaeohyrax patagonicus1 site
- Archaeophylus patrius1 site
- Argyrohyrax proavus1 site
- Asmodeus osborni1 site
- Asteromys puelche1 site
- Asteromys punctus1 site
- Australohyaena antiqua1 site
- Carlothentes chubutensis1 site
- Caviomorpha1 site
- Cephalomyidae1 site
- Cephalomyopsis1 site
- Cephalomys1 site
- Cephalomys arcidens1 site
- Cephalomys ceciae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Palaeopeltis inornatus, 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- The late Oligocene Xenarthran fauna of Quebrada Fiera (Mendoza, Argentina) and its implications for sloth origins and the diversity of Palaeogene cingulates1
- La presencia del Xenartro Palaeopeltis inornatus Ameghino, 1894, en la Formación Fray Bentos (Oligoceno Tardío), Uruguay1
- The Deseadan, Early Oligocene, Marsupialia of South America1
- Loomis, 19141
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Palaeopeltis inornatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaeopeltis inornatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Palaeopeltis inornatus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPalaeopeltis through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1894