Hapalops angustipalatus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HapalopsPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Megalonychidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Megalonychidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 16.3 Mya to 13.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 17.5 Mya to 11 Mya.
2 occurrences of Hapalops angustipalatus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Hapalops angustipalatus 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.
Hapalops angustipalatus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hapalops angustipalatus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Acarechimys minutissimus2 sites
- Acanthochelys1 site
- Acarechimys1 site
- Acarechimys minutus1 site
- Acyon myctoderos1 site
- Adinotherium ovinum1 site
- Astrapotherium magnum1 site
- Australogale leptognathus1 site
- Borhyaena tuberata1 site
- Borhyaenidae1 site
- Caenolestidae1 site
- Capromyinae1 site
- Caviidae1 site
- Cephalomyidae1 site
- Chelonoidis1 site
- Chinchillidae1 site
- Cladosictis patagonica1 site
- Echimyidae1 site
- Eucholoeops ingens1 site
- Euphractinae1 site
- Guiomys unica1 site
- Hapalops elongatus1 site
- Hapalops indifferens1 site
- Hapalops ponderosus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Hapalops angustipalatus, 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
2 references- Paleobiology of the Santacrucian sloths and anteaters (Xenarthra, Pilosa)1
- The Miocene vertebrates of Quebrada Honda, Bolivia. Part II. Edentata.1
Each of the 2 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 Hapalops angustipalatus
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- Licence
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- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hapalops angustipalatus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHapalops through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1891