Pampatherium

Pampatherium is an extinct genus of xenarthran cingulates that lived in the Americas during the Pleistocene. Some species went extinct right at the Pleistocene-Holocene border.

Pampatherium

Baperookamo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
PampatheriidaePBDB
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 5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 56 occurrencesPliocene — about 3 of 56 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 53 of 56 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 56 occurrences5.1–5.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.0–4.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.6–4.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.4–4.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.2–4.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.0–3.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.9–2.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–2.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.2–2.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.0–1.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.8–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.5–1.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.3–1.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.1–917 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence917 ka–733 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence733 ka–550 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences550 ka–367 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences367 ka–183 ka Mya — about 6 occurrences183 ka–0 Mya — about 30 occurrences3.8 Mya129 ka5.5 Mya0 Mya

56 occurrences of Pampatherium 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

56 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

16 formations

Nuapua — 20.75°S, 63.07°WNuapua — 20.87°S, 63.07°WSopas — 30.43°S, 56.45°WSopas — 32.05°S, 56.12°WLujan — 38.57°S, 58.70°WLujan — 34.60°S, 59.15°WFortin Tres Pozos — 26.60°S, 58.67°WSanta Vitória — 33.74°S, 53.37°WSuelo — 28.60°S, 59.03°WPaso Real — 8.86°N, 83.07°WTarija — 21.53°S, 64.73°WBecerra — 19.42°N, 99.23°WUmala — 17.08°S, 68.00°WMonte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WMesa — 9.85°N, 63.33°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.07°S, 60.55°WDolores — 34.28°S, 55.92°WSan Andres — 38.12°S, 57.70°WYupoi — 28.60°S, 59.03°W

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The named rock units Pampatherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pampatherium and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pampatherium and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

684 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Pampatherium, 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

41 references

Each of the 56 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. 29 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 Pampatherium

Credit
Baperookamo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
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 itPampatheriidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1875