Proeutatus

Proeutatus is an extinct genus of xenarthran, belonging to the order Cingulata. It lived during the Early Miocene, and its fossilized remains were discovered in South America.

Proeutatus

Hatcher, J. B.; Morgan, J. Pierpont; Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia; Princeton University Expeditions… · 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
ChlamyphoridaePBDB
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 2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 17.5 Mya to 15.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 21 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Miocene — about 45 of 45 occurrencesMiocene21–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 9 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17.5 Mya15.5 Mya21.5 Mya11.1 Mya

45 occurrences of Proeutatus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

45 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

8 formations

Santa Cruz — 51.02°S, 69.15°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WSanta Cruz — 50.16°S, 69.67°WSanta Cruz — 50.27°S, 70.37°WSanta Cruz — 50.36°S, 71.84°WSanta Cruz — 50.25°S, 71.07°WSanta Cruz — 51.33°S, 69.02°WSanta Cruz — 51.05°S, 69.13°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 68.95°WSanta Cruz — 50.00°S, 70.00°WSanta Cruz — 50.75°S, 69.18°WSanta Cruz — 51.35°S, 69.00°WSanta Cruz — 50.32°S, 72.10°WSanta Cruz — 51.53°S, 72.09°WSanta Cruz — 47.58°S, 71.85°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.71°WCerro Bandera — 38.92°S, 69.58°WCerro Bandera — 38.88°S, 69.47°WCerro Bandera — 39.27°S, 69.28°WCollón Cura — 41.00°S, 70.58°WCollón Cura — 42.65°S, 69.70°WSanta Cruz — 50.63°S, 72.47°WGalera — 46.90°S, 72.30°WChichinales — 39.13°S, 67.75°WCerro Boleadoras — 47.00°S, 71.62°W

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The named rock units Proeutatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Proeutatus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Proeutatus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

257 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Proeutatus, 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

20 references

Each of the 45 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. 8 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 Proeutatus

Credit
Hatcher, J. B.; Morgan, J. Pierpont; Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia; Princeton University Expeditions…
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Proeutatus 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.

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 itChlamyphoridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1891