Pyramiodontherium
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MegatheriinaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Megatheriidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Megatheriidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
13 occurrences of Pyramiodontherium on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
13 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Ituzaingo Formation5
- Andalhuala Formation4
- Uquía Formation1
- Toro Negro Formation1
- Andahuala Formation1
- Tafna Formation1
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The named rock units Pyramiodontherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pyramiodontherium and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Pyramiodontherium and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
218 taxa- Macrochorobates scalabrinii3 sites
- Sphenotherus zavaletianus3 sites
- Brachytherium cuspidatum2 sites
- Eleutherocercus solidus2 sites
- Eosclerocalyptus proximus2 sites
- Palaeocavia2 sites
- Phlyctaenopyga ameghini2 sites
- Prodolichotis prisca2 sites
- Promacrauchenia antiqua2 sites
- Stromaphorus compressidens2 sites
- Torcellia paranense2 sites
- Xotodon2 sites
- Adinotherium1 site
- Amphiocnus paranense1 site
- Anatochoerus1 site
- Andalgalornis1 site
- Berroia1 site
- Brachytherium1 site
- Brachytherium gradatum1 site
- Briaromys1 site
- Briaromys trouessartianus1 site
- Caiman1 site
- Caiman australis1 site
- Caiman latirostris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Pyramiodontherium, 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
11 references- On the presence of Pyramiodontherium (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Megatheriidae) in the late Miocene of northeastern Argentina and its biogeographical implications3
- New data on the diversity and chronology of late Neogene sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora) from the Villavil-Quillay Basin, Catamarca, Argentina Ricardo1
- Xenarthra (Mammalia) from a new late Neogene fossiliferous locality in Northwestern Argentina1
- Pyramiodontherium Rovereto (Xenarthra, Tardigrada, Megatheriinae) from the Early Pliocene of San Fernando, Catamarca Province, Argentina1
- Los Tardigrada (Mammalia, Xenarthra) del Mioceno tardío de Entre Ríos Argentina1
- Late cenozoic mammals from the northwest of Argentina1
- Biochronology and biostratigraphy of the Uquía Formation (Pliocene- early Pleistocene, NW Argentina) and its significance in the Great American Biotic Interchange1
- A review of Pliomegatherium Kraglievich, 1930 (Xenarthra: Phyllophaga: Megatheriidae)1
- The Toro Negro Megatheriinae (Mammalia, Xenarthra: A new species of Pyramiodontherium and a review of Plesiomegatherium1
- Una nueva especie de megaterino (Xenarthra, Megatheriidae) del Mioceno Tardío-Plioceno de Catamarca, Argentina1
- Sobre algunos megaterios pliocenos1
Each of the 13 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 content0
No picture of Pyramiodontherium was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pyramiodontherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pyramiodontherium was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMegatheriinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rovereto 1914