Panochthus tuberculatus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PanochthusPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Xenarthra
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Xenarthra
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 271 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 400 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
17 occurrences of Panochthus tuberculatus 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
17 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
6 formations
- Sopas Formation3
- Nuapua Formation2
- Lujan Formation2
- Salto Ander Egg Formation2
- Tucuman Formation1
- Buenos Aires Formation1
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The named rock units Panochthus tuberculatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Panochthus tuberculatus and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Panochthus tuberculatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
164 taxa- Megatherium americanum10 sites
- Glossotherium robustum8 sites
- Glyptodon clavipes8 sites
- Gomphotheriidae8 sites
- Equus caballus7 sites
- Glyptodon reticulatus7 sites
- Hemiauchenia paradoxa7 sites
- Macrauchenia patagonica7 sites
- Toxodon platensis7 sites
- Lestodon armatus6 sites
- Smilodon populator6 sites
- Glyptodon5 sites
- Hippidion principale5 sites
- Lama5 sites
- Pampatherium5 sites
- Panthera onca5 sites
- Propraopus5 sites
- Sclerocalyptus ornatus5 sites
- Arctotherium4 sites
- Doedicurus clavicaudatus4 sites
- Equus4 sites
- Lagostomus maximus4 sites
- Neolicaphrium recens4 sites
- Notiomastodon platensis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Panochthus tuberculatus, 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
16 references- Pleistocene mammals from Uruguay: Biostratigraphic, biogeographic and environmental connotations2
- Nuevos registros de mamíferos del Pleistoceno Tardío (MIS 5) en el sur de la Mesopotamia argentina1
- Xenarthrans of the collection of Santiago Roth from the Pampean Region of Argentina (Pleistocene), in Zurich, Switzerland1
- A new tortoise from the Pleistocene of Argentina with comments on the extinction of Late Pleistocene tortoises and plant communities1
- Síntesis actualizada del registro paleontológico pleistoceno en el Noroeste argentino1
- Vertebrate continental assemblage from the Last Interglacial in southern South America (Entre Ríos, Argentina). Biostratigraphy and paleoenvironment1
- Paleofauna del Pleistoceno de Termas de Rio Hondo, Santiago del Estero, Argentina1
- Arroyo del Vizcaíno, Uruguay: a fossil-rich 30-ka-old megafaunal locality with cut-marked bones1
- Late Cenozoic mammal bio-chronostratigraphy in southwestern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina1
- The Eocene to Pleistocene vertebrates of Bolivia and their stratigraphic context: a review1
- Hippidion sp. (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equidae) en Sedimentos del Pleistoceno Superior del Uruguay (Edad Mamifero Luganense)1
- Mamiferos y Biostratigrafia. Una Nueva Fauna Loval de la Unidad Mamifero Lujanense (Pleistoceno Tardio) de la Provincia de Buenos Aires1
Each of the 17 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. 4 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.
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No 3D scan of Panochthus tuberculatus 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.
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. (Owen 1845)