Mylodon darwini

Mylodon darwini

Uncredited · 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
MylodonPBDB
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 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 1 of 20 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene — about 19 of 20 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–928 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences23.04 Mya129 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

20 occurrences of Mylodon darwini 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

20 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

Nuapua — 20.75°S, 63.07°WNuapua — 20.87°S, 63.07°WLa Invernada — 32.55°S, 64.44°WSanta Vitória — 33.74°S, 53.37°WSan Julian — 47.08°S, 66.10°WEl Palmar — 31.42°S, 58.03°WTimbúes — 32.45°S, 60.80°WSalto Ander Egg — 31.03°S, 60.50°W

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The named rock units Mylodon darwini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mylodon darwini and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Mylodon darwini and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

87 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Mylodon darwini, 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

10 references

Each of the 20 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 content2

Picture of Mylodon darwini

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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1839