Paleuphractus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EuphractiniPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Dasypodidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Dasypodidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 8 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Paleuphractus 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
10 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
7 formations
- Chiquimil Formation3
- Toro Negro Formation2
- Muyu Huasi Formation1
- Epecuén Formation1
- Monte Hermoso Formation1
- El Morterito Formation · El Bolsón Group1
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The named rock units Paleuphractus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paleuphractus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Paleuphractus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
114 taxa- Cardiomys3 sites
- Chasicotatus ameghinoi3 sites
- Macrochorobates scalabrinii3 sites
- Orthomyctera3 sites
- Chasicotatus peiranoi2 sites
- Lagostomus2 sites
- Lagostomus (Lagostomopsis)2 sites
- Lutreolina2 sites
- Procariama simplex2 sites
- Protabrocoma2 sites
- Tetrastylus2 sites
- Tetrastylus laevigatus2 sites
- Vassallia maxima2 sites
- Vetelia2 sites
- Xotodon2 sites
- Abrocoma1 site
- Argentavis magnificens1 site
- Aspidocalyptus castroi1 site
- Borhyaenidium musteloides1 site
- Borhyaenidium riggsi1 site
- Brachytherium1 site
- Brachytherium cuspidatum1 site
- Chasicomys1 site
- Chasicotatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Paleuphractus, 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
9 references- Cronobioestratigrafía del Mioceno tardío – Plioceno temprano, Puerta de Corral Quemado y Villavil, provincia de Catamarca, Argentina2
- Late Miocene Dasypodidae Gray, 1821 (Xenarthra, Cingulata) from the Toro Negro Formation (Central Andes, Argentina): diversity and chronological and biogeographical implications1
- Marco estratigráfico, paleontología de vertebrados y paleoambientes del Plioceno de Catamarca, Tucumán y Santiago del Estero, Argentina1
- Late cenozoic mammals from the northwest of Argentina1
- Estratigrafía y mamíferos fósiles de la Formación Toro Negro (Neógeno), Departamento Vinchina, noroeste de la provincia de La Rioja, Argentina1
- On the flight capabilities and distribution of the giant Miocene bird Argentavis magnificens (Teratornithidae)1
- Nuevos Dasypodidae (Mammalia, Xenarthra) del Mioceno tardio del Valle del Cajon, Catamarca, Argentina1
- The Eocene to Pleistocene vertebrates of Bolivia and their stratigraphic context: a review1
- Sobre una colección de vertebrados fósiles de Monte Hermoso (Plioceno Superior), Argentina, con la descripción de una nueva especie de Marmosa (Marsupialia: Didelphidae)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.
Media and terms
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No picture of Paleuphractus 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 Paleuphractus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paleuphractus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEuphractini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kraglievich 1934