Scirrotherium

Scirrotherium is an extinct genus of pampatheres, a family of herbivorous cingulates, related to the similar but smaller modern armadillos, and with the now extinct glyptodonts, well-known from their shell-like armor. Its scientific name is derived from the Greek prefix "skiros-", "cover", and the suffix "-therion, "beast", while the name of the type species, hondaensis, honors the town of Honda, in the Tolima Department of Colombia. Scirrotherium is one of several genera of xenarthrans found in the La Venta fauna, dated from the Middle Miocene.

Scirrotherium

Baperookamo · CC BY-SA 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
PampatheriidaePBDB
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 8.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Miocene — about 15 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesPliocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.6–9.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.1–8.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.5–7.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.9–7.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–3.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.7–3.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15.98 Mya7.246 Mya20.9 Mya3.1 Mya

16 occurrences of Scirrotherium 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

16 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

10 formations

Castilletes — 11.91°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.86°N, 71.37°WLa Victoria — 3.22°N, 75.22°WLa Victoria — 3.33°N, 75.16°WPebas — 7.36°S, 74.96°WCaujarao — 11.50°N, 69.52°WVillavieja — 3.26°N, 75.19°WCastillo — 10.37°N, 70.07°WCurré — 8.86°N, 83.08°WParana — 31.88°S, 60.65°WPuerto Madryn — 42.77°S, 63.66°WSincelejo — 9.36°N, 75.28°W

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The named rock units Scirrotherium 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.

Scirrotherium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Scirrotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

137 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Scirrotherium, 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

8 references

Each of the 16 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 content1

Picture of Scirrotherium

Credit
Baperookamo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Scirrotherium 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 itPampatheriidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Edmund and Theodor 1997