Prozaedyus

Prozaedyus is an extinct genus of chlamyphorid armadillo that lived during the Middle Oligocene and Middle Miocene in what is now South America.

Prozaedyus

Jonathan Chen · 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
Sits inside
ChlamyphoridaePBDB
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 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 48 occurrencesOligocene — about 5 of 48 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 43 of 48 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 48 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 19 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.3–8.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.2–7.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.2–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.1–4.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.0–3.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27.3 Mya7.246 Mya34.5 Mya3 Mya

48 occurrences of Prozaedyus 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

48 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

13 formations

Santa Cruz — 51.02°S, 69.15°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WSanta Cruz — 50.16°S, 69.67°WSanta Cruz — 50.27°S, 70.37°WSanta Cruz — 50.25°S, 71.07°WSanta Cruz — 48.52°S, 69.72°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.42°WSanta Cruz — 50.35°S, 69.03°WSanta Cruz — 50.00°S, 70.00°WSanta Cruz — 50.75°S, 69.18°WSanta Cruz — 51.34°S, 69.02°WSanta Cruz — 51.35°S, 69.00°WSarmiento — 45.23°S, 67.49°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.71°WSarmiento — 44.50°S, 66.00°WSarmiento — 44.02°S, 68.02°WCerro Bandera — 39.27°S, 69.28°WCerro Bandera — 38.92°S, 69.58°WCerro Bandera — 38.88°S, 69.47°WCollón Cura — 41.00°S, 70.58°WCollón Cura — 42.65°S, 69.70°WChoquecota — 18.10°S, 67.92°WGalera — 46.90°S, 72.30°WRío Frías — 44.58°S, 71.23°WDeseado — 47.90°S, 66.25°WAgua de la Piedra — 36.55°S, 69.70°WChinches — 31.99°S, 69.78°WLoma de Las Tapias — 31.43°S, 68.64°WCerro Boleadoras — 47.00°S, 71.62°WToro Negro — 28.61°S, 68.24°W

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The named rock units Prozaedyus 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.

Prozaedyus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Prozaedyus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

393 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Prozaedyus, 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

24 references

Each of the 48 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. 12 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 Prozaedyus

Credit
Jonathan Chen
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1891