Lomaphorus

Lomaphorus is a possibly dubious extinct genus of glyptodont that lived during the Pleistocene in eastern Argentina. Although many species have been referred, the genus itself is possibly dubious or synonymous with other glyptodonts like Neoslerocalyptus from the same region.

Lomaphorus

Illustrated by Florentino Ameghino, reproduced by Lydekker (1894) · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
LomaphoriniPBDB
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 3.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 8 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 8 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 8 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences8.2–7.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.9–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.1–4.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.8–4.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.0–3.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.7–3.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.0–1.7 Mya — about 0.1 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 0.4 occurrences567 ka–283 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences283 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8 Mya129 ka8.5 Mya0 Mya

8 occurrences of Lomaphorus 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

8 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

Lagunilla del Plata — 31.05°S, 62.56°WLa Invernada — 33.24°S, 62.42°WTezanos Pinto — 30.92°S, 62.69°WMiramar — 38.17°S, 57.65°WBrochero — 32.69°S, 64.72°WCorral Quemado — 27.22°S, 66.93°WAndahuala — 27.29°S, 66.91°W

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The named rock units Lomaphorus 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.

Lomaphorus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Lomaphorus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

87 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Lomaphorus, 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

5 references

Each of the 8 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 Lomaphorus

Credit
Illustrated by Florentino Ameghino, reproduced by Lydekker (1894)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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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What may have been alongside itLomaphorini through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1889