Pilosa

Searched as Pilosa indet.. The Paleobiology Database treats Pilosa as the accepted name.

Pilosa is an order of xenarthran placental mammals, native to the Americas. They include anteaters and sloths. The name comes from the Latin word for "hairy".

Pilosa

PaleoMatt · 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
XenarthraPBDB
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 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 12 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 12 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 12 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.8–8.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.4–7.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–1.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.4–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences37.71 Mya129 ka41.9 Mya0 Mya

12 occurrences of Pilosa on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

12 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

6 formations

Collón Cura — 42.65°S, 69.70°WChaco — 24.25°S, 66.92°WChiu-Chiu — 22.34°S, 68.67°WCaujarao — 11.50°N, 69.52°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.67°WPongo — 15.50°S, 74.40°W

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The named rock units Pilosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pilosa and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pilosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,059 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 907 sites for Pilosa, and this reads 240 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

11 references

Each of the 12 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

Media content2

Picture of Pilosa

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itXenarthra through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Flower 1883)