Proeuphractus

Proeuphractus is an extinct genus of xenarthran, related to the modern armadillos. It lived from the Early to the Late Miocene, and its fossilized remains were discovered in South America.

No picture of Proeuphractus 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 Proeuphractus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EuphractiniPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Dasypodidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Dasypodidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 21 Mya to 5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 29 Mya to 3.8 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 27 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 23 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 27 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.4–8.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.5–7.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.7–6.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.8–5.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences5.9–5.0 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.0–4.2 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences4.2–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21 Mya5 Mya29.5 Mya3.3 Mya

27 occurrences of Proeuphractus 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

27 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

11 formations

Cerro Azul — 36.25°S, 65.51°WCerro Azul — 37.37°S, 65.47°WCerro Azul — 35.69°S, 64.67°WCerro Azul — 37.73°S, 63.53°WCerro Azul — 36.08°S, 65.00°WCerro Azul — 37.02°S, 64.51°WCerro Azul — 37.28°S, 64.15°WCerro Azul — 37.10°S, 65.74°WCerro Azul — 37.14°S, 65.77°WChiquimil — 27.22°S, 66.93°WSalicas — 28.33°S, 66.95°WKiyu — 34.63°S, 56.95°WSarmiento — 45.23°S, 67.49°WArroyo Chasicó — 38.62°S, 62.98°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WEpecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°WSaldungaray — 35.68°S, 64.67°WMonte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WRío de los Pozos — 33.30°S, 69.07°W

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The named rock units Proeuphractus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Proeuphractus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Proeuphractus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

475 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Proeuphractus, 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

Each of the 27 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 content0

No picture of Proeuphractus 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 Proeuphractus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Proeuphractus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itEuphractini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1886