Panochthus

Panochthus is an extinct genus of glyptodont, which lived in the Gran Chaco-Pampean region of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay during the Pleistocene epoch. The first specimen of Panochthus consisted of two carapace (shell) fragments, now lost, recovered from Buenos Aires. In 1845, the fragments were referred by Sir Richard Owen to the genus Glyptodon. In 1864, working from more complete remains, Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister erected Panochthus as a subgenus. Three years later, he elevated it to the rank of genus. The species named by Owen, now P. tuberculatus, stands as the type species, though many others have since been named.

Panochthus

Ryan Somma · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
GlyptodontidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Xenarthra
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Xenarthra
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Length
3 mWikidata
Mass
1500 kgWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 2.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Pliocene — about 3 of 76 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 72 of 76 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 76 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.4–3.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.3–3.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.2–3.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.0–2.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.6–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–2.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.3–2.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.1–2.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.0–1.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.9–1.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.7–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.4–1.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.3–1.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.1–1.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.0–860 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence860 ka–717 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences717 ka–573 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences573 ka–430 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences430 ka–287 ka Mya — about 9 occurrences287 ka–143 ka Mya — about 11 occurrences143 ka–0 Mya — about 32 occurrences3 Mya11.7 ka4.3 Mya0 Mya

76 occurrences of Panochthus 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

76 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

21 formations

Salto Ander Egg — 32.12°S, 60.43°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.07°S, 60.55°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.28°S, 60.37°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.13°S, 60.07°WLujan — 36.78°S, 59.87°WLujan — 38.57°S, 58.70°WLujan — 34.60°S, 59.15°WSopas — 30.43°S, 56.45°WSopas — 31.25°S, 57.00°WSopas — 32.05°S, 56.12°WSuelo — 28.60°S, 59.03°WDolores — 34.42°S, 56.26°WDolores — 34.38°S, 57.88°WDolores — 34.44°S, 57.20°WNuapua — 20.75°S, 63.07°WNuapua — 20.87°S, 63.07°WSacaba — 17.38°S, 66.17°WYupoi — 28.60°S, 59.03°WAgua Blanca — 38.48°S, 61.80°WUquía — 23.33°S, 65.33°WTezanos Pinto — 30.92°S, 62.69°WChocancharava — 33.28°S, 64.36°WMiramar — 38.17°S, 57.65°WSanta Vitória — 33.74°S, 53.37°WChapadmalal — 38.17°S, 57.63°WLibertad — 34.53°S, 56.18°WTarija — 21.53°S, 64.73°WTucuman — 26.73°S, 65.27°WBuenos Aires — 34.58°S, 59.43°WLuján — 36.00°S, 59.10°WTouro Passo — 29.67°S, 56.87°W

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The named rock units Panochthus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 39 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Panochthus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Panochthus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

365 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Panochthus, 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

54 references

Each of the 76 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. 42 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 content3

Picture of Panochthus

Credit
Ryan Somma
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Panochthus tuberculatus · MHNG:V:5798

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
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CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
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The description on this site

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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. Burmeister 1866