Tolypeutes

The genus Tolypeutes contains the two species of three-banded armadillos. They are restricted to open and semi-open habitats in South America.

Tolypeutes

SouthernThreeBandedArmadillo065.jpg : Ltshears derivative work: WolfmanSF ( talk ) · 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
Also called
three-banded armadilloPBDB
Sits inside
TolypeutinaePBDB
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 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 1.75 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 0 of 24 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 21 of 24 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 2 of 24 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.1–933 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences933 ka–817 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences817 ka–700 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences700 ka–583 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences583 ka–467 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences467 ka–350 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence350 ka–233 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences233 ka–117 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences117 ka–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences1.75 Mya11.7 ka3.5 Mya0 Mya

24 occurrences of Tolypeutes on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

24 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

8 formations

Nuapua — 20.75°S, 63.07°WNuapua — 20.87°S, 63.07°WLujan — 34.60°S, 59.15°WLujan — 38.75°S, 60.60°WAgua Blanca — 38.48°S, 61.80°WLagunilla del Plata — 31.05°S, 62.56°WLa Invernada — 33.24°S, 62.42°WMiramar — 38.17°S, 57.65°WSan Andres — 38.12°S, 57.70°WYupoi — 28.60°S, 59.03°W

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The named rock units Tolypeutes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tolypeutes and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Tolypeutes and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

303 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Tolypeutes, 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 24 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 content2

Picture of Tolypeutes

Credit
SouthernThreeBandedArmadillo065.jpg : Ltshears derivative work: WolfmanSF ( talk )
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Tolypeutes matacus · FMNH:Mammals:164098

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.

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What may have been alongside itTolypeutinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Illiger 1811