Hoplophorus

Hoplophorus is an extinct genus of glyptodont, a subfamily of armadillos. The only confidently known species was H. euphractus, found in Pleistocene deposits in Brazil, though fossils possibly from another species are known from Bolivia.

Hoplophorus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PanochthidaePBDB
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 4.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 10 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 4 of 10 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences8.2–7.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.9–7.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.7–7.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.2–6.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.0–5.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.7–3.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.8–2.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.3–2.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.0–1.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.7–1.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.4–1.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.1–850 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences850 ka–567 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences567 ka–283 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence5 Mya129 ka8.5 Mya0 Mya

10 occurrences of Hoplophorus on record. 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

10 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

7 formations

Cerro Azul — 36.25°S, 65.51°WCerro Azul — 37.73°S, 63.53°WTarija — 21.53°S, 64.73°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WMesa — 9.85°N, 63.33°WBrochero — 31.92°S, 64.57°WTucuman — 26.81°S, 65.30°WEpecuén — 37.22°S, 63.55°W

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The named rock units Hoplophorus 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.

Found in the same rock

331 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Hoplophorus, 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

8 references

Each of the 10 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 Hoplophorus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Hoplophorus 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. Lund 1838