Plohophorus
Plohophorus is an extinct genus of glyptodont. it lived from the Late Miocene to the Late Pliocene, and its fossilized remains were discovered in South America.
No picture of Plohophorus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Plohophorus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlohophoriniPBDB
- 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 3.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
22 occurrences of Plohophorus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
22 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
12 formations
- Monte Hermoso Formation7
- Irene Formation2
- Barranca de los Lobos Formation2
- Saldungaray-La Toma Formation1
- Solimoes Formation1
- Epecuén Formation1
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The named rock units Plohophorus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Plohophorus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Plohophorus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
464 taxa- Cardiomys4 sites
- Phugatherium4 sites
- Prodolichotis4 sites
- Promacrauchenia4 sites
- Caiman3 sites
- Caviodon3 sites
- Cullinia3 sites
- Macroeuphractus retusus3 sites
- Orthomyctera3 sites
- Palaeocavia3 sites
- Paraglyptodon3 sites
- Paramyocastor diligens3 sites
- Proscelidodon patrius3 sites
- Pseudotypotherium3 sites
- Thylacosmilus atrox3 sites
- Xotodon3 sites
- Actenomys priscus2 sites
- Brachytherium cuspidatum2 sites
- Cardiatherium2 sites
- Chelidae2 sites
- Chelonoidis2 sites
- Chorobates2 sites
- Chorobates villosissimus2 sites
- Colossoma2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Plohophorus, 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- Biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Monte Hermoso Formation (early Pliocene) at its type locality, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina4
- Late Cenozoic vertebrates from the Southern Pampean region: systematic and bio-chronostratigraphic update3
- Reassesment of the Pliocene-Pleistocene continental time scale of Southern South America. Correlation of the type Chapadmalalan with Bolivian sections2
- New vertebrates from the Ituzaingó Formation (Late Miocene of Entre Ríos Province, Argentina), including first records of Leptodactylus (Amphibia, Anura) and Chelonoidis (Testudines, Cryptodira)1
- Advances in the understanding of Neogene mammalian fauna in the Pampean region (central Argentina) through revising “biozone” hypotheses based on new dates and biochronological analyses1
- New contributions to the systematics of the “Plohophorini” (Mammalia, Cingulata, Glyptodontidae) from Uruguay1
- The Quequen Salado river basin: Geology and biochronostratigraphy of the Mio-Pliocene boundary in the southern Pampean plain, Argentina1
- Taphonomic modes on fluvial deposits of the Monte Hermoso Formation (early Pliocene), Buenos Aires province, Argentina1
- Nueva y Más Reciente Especie de Plohophorus Ameghino (Xenarthra, Glyptodontidae) del Marplatense Inferior (Barrancalobense, Plioceno Tardío), de Barranca de los Lobos (Provincia de Buenos Aires)1
- The Acre vertebrate fauna: Age, diversity, and geography1
- Late Cenozoic mammal bio-chronostratigraphy in southwestern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina1
- The late Miocene climatic change - persistence of a climatic signal through the orogenic stratigraphic record in northwestern Argentina1
Each of the 22 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.
Media and terms
Media content1
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Plohophorus sp. · macn:pv:7126
No picture of Plohophorus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Plohophorus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Plohophorus”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlohophorini through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1887