Scelidodon tarijensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScelidodonPBDB
- 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 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 400 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
8 occurrences of Scelidodon tarijensis 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
8 occurrences- Pliocene19%
- Pleistocene81%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Scelidodon tarijensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Scelidodon tarijensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Scelidodon tarijensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
81 taxa- Catonyx tarijensis3 sites
- Macrauchenia patagonica2 sites
- Mylodon darwini2 sites
- Scelidotherium leptocephalum2 sites
- Toxodon platensis2 sites
- Aenocyon dirus1 site
- Andinomys1 site
- Arctotherium tarijense1 site
- Arctotherium wingei1 site
- Astraea sp.1 site
- Balanus1 site
- Bufo cf. marinus horribilis1 site
- Calomys1 site
- Canis proplatensis1 site
- Canis tarijensis1 site
- Ceratophrys1 site
- Cervidae1 site
- Cervus percultus1 site
- Cervus tuberculatus1 site
- Chaetophractus villosus1 site
- Charitoceros1 site
- Chrysocyon brachyurus1 site
- Coendou1 site
- Coendou magnus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Scelidodon tarijensis, 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
2 references- The Scelidotheriinae Ameghino, 1904 (Phyllophaga, Xenarthra) from the Ensenadan–Lujanian Stage/Ages (Early Pleistocene to Early-Middle Pleistocene–Early Holocene) of Argentina6
- The Eocene to Pleistocene vertebrates of Bolivia and their stratigraphic context: a review2
Each of the 8 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
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No picture of Scelidodon tarijensis 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 Scelidodon tarijensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scelidodon tarijensis 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.
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. Gervais and Ameghino 1880