Paramylodon

Paramylodon is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Mylodontidae endemic to North America during the Pliocene through Pleistocene epochs, living from around ~4.9 Mya–12,000 years ago.

Paramylodon

Nikhil Iyengar · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MylodontinaePBDB
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 1.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 4.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 6 of 105 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 99 of 105 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 105 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.0–3.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.8–3.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.6–3.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–1.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.2–1.0 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.0–867 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences867 ka–693 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences693 ka–520 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences520 ka–347 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences347 ka–173 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences173 ka–0 Mya — about 37 occurrences1.8 Mya129 ka5.2 Mya0 Mya

105 occurrences of Paramylodon 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

105 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

21 formations

Pauba — 33.90°N, 117.00°WKingsdown — 37.04°N, 100.50°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WBermont — 28.80°N, 82.20°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WGlenns Ferry — 43.00°N, 118.00°WLove — 31.50°N, 105.20°W"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WTule — 34.51°N, 101.41°WPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WSappa — 41.20°N, 96.60°WBruneau — 43.00°N, 118.00°WTacubaya — 21.80°N, 102.30°WTurlock Lake — 37.06°N, 120.20°WSeymour — 33.75°N, 99.50°WMcPherson — 38.30°N, 97.60°WAmerican Falls Lake Bed E — 42.80°N, 112.90°WPalos Verdes Sand — 34.00°N, 118.20°WRiverbank — 38.60°N, 121.50°WSilver Bluff — 32.56°N, 80.29°WAtway — 37.20°N, 100.30°WChapala — 20.30°N, 103.20°WCamp Rice — 32.02°N, 106.70°W

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The named rock units Paramylodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 72 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paramylodon and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Paramylodon and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,043 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 103 sites for Paramylodon, 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

65 references

Each of the 105 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. 53 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 content3

Picture of Paramylodon

Credit
Nikhil Iyengar
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Paramylodon harlani · LACM:rlb:HC 1452-R-5

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Brown 1903