Trachycalyptus
Trachycalyptus is a dubious extinct genus of glyptodont. It lived during the Early Pliocene, and its fossilized remains were discovered in South America.
A_proietti · Public Domain · 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
- GlyptodontiaPBDB
- 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 1.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5 Mya to 3.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 8 Mya to 3 Mya.
5 occurrences of Trachycalyptus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Trachycalyptus 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.
Trachycalyptus and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Trachycalyptus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
295 taxa- Cardiomys4 sites
- Chorobates3 sites
- Lagostomus (Lagostomopsis)3 sites
- Lutreolina tracheia3 sites
- Macrochorobates3 sites
- Microcavia3 sites
- Orthomyctera3 sites
- Phugatherium3 sites
- Plohophoroides3 sites
- Promacrauchenia3 sites
- Xotodon3 sites
- Argyrohyus2 sites
- Argyrolagus2 sites
- Brachytherium2 sites
- Cyonasua2 sites
- Diheterocnus2 sites
- Doellotatus2 sites
- Dolicavia2 sites
- Eucoelophorus2 sites
- Hyperdidelphys2 sites
- Kraglievichimys formosus2 sites
- Macroeuphractus2 sites
- Macroeuphractus retusus2 sites
- Necromys bonapartei2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Trachycalyptus, 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
4 references- Reassesment of the Pliocene-Pleistocene continental time scale of Southern South America. Correlation of the type Chapadmalalan with Bolivian sections2
- Late Cenozoic vertebrates from the Southern Pampean region: systematic and bio-chronostratigraphic update1
- Miocene vertebrates from Entre Rios province, eastern Argentina1
- Calera Avellaneda: una localidad con mamiferos del Plioceno en las sierras septentrionales de la provincia de Buenos Aires1
Each of the 5 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 Trachycalyptus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- A_proietti
- Licence
- Public Domain
- 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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What may have been alongside itGlyptodontia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1908