Glyptodontidae

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

Glyptodonts are an extinct clade of large, heavily armored armadillos, reaching up to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in height, and maximum body masses of around 2 tonnes. They had short, deep skulls, a fused vertebral column, and a large bony carapace made up of hundreds of individual scutes. Some glyptodonts had clubbed tails, similar to ankylosaurid dinosaurs.

Glyptodontidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
glyptodonPBDB
Sits inside
GlyptodontoideaPBDB
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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 29 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 3 of 73 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 21 of 73 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 22 of 73 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 25 of 73 occurrencesPleistocene30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.9–8.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.9–7.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.9–6.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.9–5.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.9–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–3.9 Mya — about 12 occurrences3.9–3.0 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.0–2.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.0–986 ka Mya — about 7 occurrences986 ka–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences23.04 Mya11.7 ka29.6 Mya0 Mya

73 occurrences of Glyptodontidae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

73 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

23 formations

Monte Hermoso — 38.99°S, 61.67°WIrene — 38.60°S, 60.61°WIrene — 38.84°S, 60.53°WIrene — 38.54°S, 60.61°WSolimões — 8.88°S, 72.78°WSolimões — 8.98°S, 72.71°WSolimões — 9.00°S, 72.76°WSolimões — 9.35°S, 72.71°WSolimões — 9.39°S, 72.70°WCerro Azul — 35.69°S, 64.67°WCerro Azul — 37.37°S, 65.47°WCerro Azul — 37.22°S, 63.59°WCerro Azul — 37.10°S, 62.79°WCerro Azul — 37.14°S, 65.77°WSarmiento — 44.67°S, 68.42°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.71°WSarmiento — 44.59°S, 69.10°WNazareno — 21.67°S, 65.58°WIpururo — 10.40°S, 73.52°WIpururo — 10.56°S, 73.13°WAgua de la Piedra — 36.55°S, 69.70°WBrochero — 31.67°S, 65.03°WTouro Passo — 30.40°S, 56.49°WTouro Passo — 29.67°S, 56.87°WCamp Rice — 32.00°N, 106.70°WChoquecota — 18.10°S, 67.92°WRosa Pata — 17.40°S, 68.45°WChaco — 24.25°S, 66.92°WCastilletes — 11.95°N, 71.27°WWare — 11.85°N, 71.32°WChaco — 22.72°S, 57.83°WGuanaco — 24.26°S, 65.33°WBlanco — 33.78°N, 101.26°WPalomares — 52.07°S, 70.00°WCura-Mallín — 38.46°S, 71.22°WCalvimonte — 24.70°S, 65.15°WLetrero — 3.33°S, 79.05°W

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The named rock units Glyptodontidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Glyptodontidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Glyptodontidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,738 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 366 sites for Glyptodontidae, 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

43 references

Each of the 73 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. 31 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 content1

Picture of Glyptodontidae

Credit
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Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Glyptodontidae 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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Burmeister 1879)