Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus

Also called

nine-banded armadilloPBDB

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Dasypus (Dasypus)PBDB

Diet

insectivore, frugivorePBDB, for Dasypus

Life habit

semifossorialPBDB, for Dasypus

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

• Pleistocene41%
• Holocene59%

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.

Where Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene. Draw the map

• Cuniculus paca7 sites
• Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris6 sites
• Nasua nasua5 sites
• Oryzomys5 sites
• Panthera onca5 sites
• Pecari tajacu5 sites
• Puma concolor5 sites
• Tayassu pecari5 sites
• Dasyprocta4 sites
• Didelphis marsupialis4 sites
• Eira barbara4 sites
• Euphractus sexcinctus4 sites
• Proechimys4 sites
• Sciurus4 sites
• Tapirus terrestris4 sites
• Zygodontomys4 sites
• Alouatta seniculus3 sites
• Coendou prehensilis3 sites
• Cyclopes3 sites
• Leopardus pardalis3 sites
• Mazama americana3 sites
• Metachirus nudicaudatus3 sites
• Morenelaphus3 sites
• Myrmecophaga tridactyla3 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus, 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.

• The cingulates (Mammalia: Xenarthra) from the late Quaternary of northern Brazil: Fossil records, paleoclimates and displacements in AmericaSoibelzon et al., 2015 · Quaternary International · journal article2
• Late Quaternary caviomorph rodents (Rodentia: Hystricognathi) from the Serra da Capivara, northeastern Brazil, with description of a new taxonKerber et al., 2016 · Historical Biology · journal article1
• Pleistocene mammals from Uruguay: Biostratigraphic, biogeographic and environmental connotationsUbilla et al., 2009 · Quaternário do Rio Grande do Sul · book chapter1
• Fauna de mamíferos do Quaternário de Serra da Mesa (Goiás, Brasil)Salles et al., 1999 · Publicações Avulsas do Museu Nacional · journal article1
• The Eocene to Pleistocene vertebrates of Bolivia and their stratigraphic context: a reviewMarshall and Sempere, 1991 · Fósiles y Facies de Bolivia - Vol. 1 Vertebrados (Revista Ténica de YPFB) · book/book chapter1
• Barro Colorado Island and Tropical BiologyLeigh and Wright, 1990 · Gentry, A.H., ed., Four Neotropical Rainforests, Yale University Press, New Haven1
• Central Amazonian Forests and the Minimum Crtical Size of Ecosystems ProjectLovejoy and Bierregaard, Jr., 1990 · Gentry, A.H., ed.1
• An Overview of Research at Cocha Cashu Biological StationTerborgh, 1990 · Gentry, A.H., Four Neotropical Rainforests, Yale University Press, New Haven1
• Piacaguera: Um Sambaqui do Litoral do Estado de Sao Paulo, BrasilRio Garcia and Uchoa, 1980 · Revista de Pre-Historia1
• Density, Productivity, and Distribution of Mammals in Two Venezuelan HabitatsEisenberg et al., 1979 · Vertebrate Ecology in the Northern Neotropics, Smithsonian Inst. Press, Washington, D.C.1
• Hoffstetter, 1968Bull Mus Nat Hist Natur1

Each of the 12 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.

What may have been alongside itDasypus (Dasypus) through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)