Lestodon

Lestodon

Ghedoghedo · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
Sits inside
MylodontinaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Mylodontidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Mylodontidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 52 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 52 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 47 of 52 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 52 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.4–4.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 35 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

52 occurrences of Lestodon 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

52 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

15 formations

Lujan — 36.78°S, 59.87°WLujan — 34.60°S, 59.15°WLujan — 38.75°S, 60.60°WDolores — 34.42°S, 56.26°WDolores — 34.38°S, 57.88°WDolores — 34.44°S, 57.20°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.12°S, 60.43°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.07°S, 60.55°WSalto Ander Egg — 31.03°S, 60.50°WTarija — 21.53°S, 64.73°WTarija — 21.50°S, 64.75°WMonte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WSanta Vitória — 33.74°S, 53.37°WSanta Vitória — 33.53°S, 53.37°WSopas — 30.43°S, 56.45°WAgua Blanca — 38.48°S, 61.80°WPampean — 34.25°S, 59.47°WUquía — 23.33°S, 65.33°WUrumaco — 11.18°N, 70.23°WMiramar — 38.17°S, 57.65°WLibertad — 34.53°S, 56.18°WSuelo — 28.60°S, 59.03°WTouro Passo — 30.40°S, 56.49°W

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The named rock units Lestodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lestodon and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Lestodon and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

368 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Lestodon, 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

34 references

Each of the 52 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. 22 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 Lestodon

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lestodon 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gervais 1855