Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis

Parapropalaehoplophorus is an extinct genus of comparatively small species of glyptodont, extinct relatives of the modern armadillo. The sole species, P. septentrionalis, identified in 2007 from the fossilized remains of a specimen found in 2004, weighed approximately 200 pounds and had a shell covered by tiny circular bumps. It lumbered around northern Chile in the Chucal Formation, an area now dominated by the Andes mountain range, some 18 million years ago. Fossils of the glyptodont also have been found in Peru.

Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParapropalaehoplophorusPBDB
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 2.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 13.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 17.5 Mya to 11 Mya.

Miocene — about 2 of 2 occurrencesMiocene18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16.3 Mya13.8 Mya18 Mya10.5 Mya

2 occurrences of Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis 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

2 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

2 formations

Chucal — 18.53°S, 69.17°WIpururo — 10.40°S, 73.52°W

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The named rock units Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 2 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

Media content1

Picture of Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis 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.

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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What may have been alongside itParapropalaehoplophorus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Croft et al. 2007