Priodontes maximus
The giant armadillo, colloquially tatu-canastra, tatou, ocarro or tatú carreta, is the largest living species of armadillo. It lives in South America, ranging throughout as far south as northern Argentina. This species is considered vulnerable to extinction.
Guillaume Delaitre · CC BY 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- Also called
- giant armadilloPBDB
- Sits inside
- PriodontesPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Priodontes
- Life habit
- semifossorialPBDB, for Priodontes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Mass
- 113 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Priodontes maximus on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
2 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Priodontes maximus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Priodontes maximus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Alouatta seniculus2 sites
- Ateles paniscus2 sites
- Caluromys lanatus2 sites
- Cervus gouazoubira2 sites
- Coendou prehensilis2 sites
- Cuniculus paca2 sites
- Cyclopes2 sites
- Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus2 sites
- Didelphis marsupialis2 sites
- Eira barbara2 sites
- Lontra longicaudis2 sites
- Mazama americana2 sites
- Mesomys2 sites
- Metachirus nudicaudatus2 sites
- Myrmecophaga tridactyla2 sites
- Nasua nasua2 sites
- Oryzomys2 sites
- Panthera onca2 sites
- Pecari tajacu2 sites
- Potos flavus2 sites
- Proechimys2 sites
- Puma concolor2 sites
- Sapajus apella2 sites
- Sciurus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Priodontes maximus, 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
2 references- Central Amazonian Forests and the Minimum Crtical Size of Ecosystems Project1
- An Overview of Research at Cocha Cashu Biological Station1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Priodontes maximus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Guillaume Delaitre
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Priodontes maximus giganteus · FMNH:Mammals:25271
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPriodontes through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Kerr 1792)