Dasypodidae

Searched as Dasypodidae indet.. The Paleobiology Database treats Dasypodidae as the accepted name.

Dasypodidae is a family of mostly extinct genera of armadillos. One genus, Dasypus, is extant, with eight living species.

Dasypodidae

Jerry Segraves ( en:User:Jsegraves99 ) · Attribution · 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
armadilloPBDB
Sits inside
DasypodoideaPBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 57 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 2 of 40 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 40 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 40 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 17 of 40 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 40 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 40 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–33 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–9.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.7–7.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.8–5.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.8–3.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.9–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–0 Mya — about 8 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka58 Mya0 Mya

40 occurrences of Dasypodidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

40 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

18 formations

Sarmiento — 44.55°S, 68.75°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.71°WSarmiento — 43.28°S, 65.48°WCerro Azul — 38.70°S, 62.26°WCerro Azul — 37.37°S, 65.47°WCerro Azul — 37.73°S, 63.53°WCura-Mallín — 37.48°S, 71.23°WCura-Mallín — 37.65°S, 71.23°WPebas — 7.36°S, 74.96°WPozo — 6.57°S, 76.27°WQuehua — 20.00°S, 67.00°WRosa Pata — 17.40°S, 68.45°WMonte Hermoso — 38.99°S, 61.67°WKoluel Kaike — 45.27°S, 67.00°WMauri — 17.20°S, 69.00°WSalla — 17.18°S, 67.63°WGeste — 24.50°S, 66.58°WQuebrada de los Colorados — 25.09°S, 66.27°WFray Bentos — 29.33°S, 58.68°WChaco — 22.72°S, 57.83°WEpecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°WLa Huertita — 34.91°S, 68.50°WTunuyán — 33.85°S, 68.47°W

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The named rock units Dasypodidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dasypodidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Dasypodidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,831 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 341 sites for Dasypodidae, and this reads 240 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

31 references

Each of the 40 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. 19 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 Dasypodidae

Credit
Jerry Segraves ( en:User:Jsegraves99 )
Licence
Attribution
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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

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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 itDasypodoidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gray 1821)