Proscelidodon

Proscelidodon is an extinct genus of ground sloths in the family Scelidotheriidae. It lived during the Miocene and Pliocene of what is now Argentina and Bolivia. The genus was described in 1935.

Proscelidodon

Eduard Solà · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
ScelidotheriinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Mylodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Mylodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 1.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 8 Mya to 3 Mya.

Miocene — about 23 of 42 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 42 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 42 occurrences8.1–7.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.9–7.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.7–7.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.5–7.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.3–7.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.1–6.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.9–6.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–6.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.1–5.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–5.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.5–5.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.333 Mya3.8 Mya8.5 Mya2.5 Mya

42 occurrences of Proscelidodon on record. 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

42 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

15 formations

Cerro Azul — 36.25°S, 65.51°WCerro Azul — 37.22°S, 63.59°WCerro Azul — 36.00°S, 65.00°WCerro Azul — 37.13°S, 62.81°WCerro Azul — 36.70°S, 64.28°WCerro Azul — 35.92°S, 64.87°WCerro Azul — 37.73°S, 63.53°WCerro Azul — 36.84°S, 65.28°WCerro Azul — 36.68°S, 64.18°WCerro Azul — 37.02°S, 64.51°WCerro Azul — 35.69°S, 64.67°WMonte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WMonte Hermoso — 38.98°S, 61.82°WEpecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°WEpecuén — 37.18°S, 62.73°WEpecuén — 37.10°S, 62.78°WIrene — 38.83°S, 60.54°WIrene — 38.64°S, 60.61°WMaimará — 23.62°S, 65.41°WMaimará — 23.48°S, 65.37°WChiquimil — 26.80°S, 66.07°WChiquimil — 27.22°S, 66.93°WChapadmalal — 38.12°S, 57.70°WChapadmalal — 38.12°S, 57.59°WToro Negro — 28.69°S, 68.31°WPuerto Belgrano — 38.98°S, 61.82°WEl Polvorín — 37.02°S, 60.33°WBrochero — 32.69°S, 64.72°WAndalhualá — 26.68°S, 66.03°WEpecuen — 37.03°S, 62.49°WRío de los Pozos — 33.30°S, 69.07°WDescanso — 14.78°S, 71.41°W

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The named rock units Proscelidodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

303 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Proscelidodon, 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

23 references

Each of the 42 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. 11 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

Picture of Proscelidodon

Credit
Eduard Solà
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Proscelidodon 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 itScelidotheriinae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bordas 1935