Scelidodon chiliense
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScelidodonPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Mylodontidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Mylodontidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Scelidodon chiliense on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
4 occurrences- Pleistocene98%
- Holocene2%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Scelidodon chiliense 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.
Scelidodon chiliense and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Scelidodon chiliense and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Cuvieronius tropicus1 site
- Glyptodon1 site
- Hippidion devillei1 site
- Macrauchenia ullomensis1 site
- Megatherium americanum1 site
- Megatherium medinae1 site
- Megatherium sundti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Scelidodon chiliense, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- The Lorenzo Sundt collection of Pleistocene mammals from Ulloma, Bolivia in the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile2
- The Scelidotheriinae Ameghino, 1904 (Phyllophaga, Xenarthra) from the Ensenadan–Lujanian Stage/Ages (Early Pleistocene to Early-Middle Pleistocene–Early Holocene) of Argentina1
- First record of Scelidodon chiliense (Lydekker) (Phyllophaga, Scelidotheriinae) from the Lujanian stage (Late Pleistocene, early Holocene) of Argentina1
Each of the 4 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. 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 Scelidodon chiliense 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 Scelidodon chiliense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scelidodon chiliense 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itScelidodon through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lydekker 1886)