Stenotatus

Stenotatus is an extinct genus of cingulate, belonging to the family Dasypodidae. It lived from the Early to the Late Miocene in South America.

Stenotatus

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 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 29 Mya to 8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 36 Mya to 5 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 43 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 43 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 36 of 43 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 43 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 19 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.8–8.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.7–7.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.6–6.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.5–5.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.5–4.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29 Mya8 Mya36.6 Mya4.4 Mya

43 occurrences of Stenotatus 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

43 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

12 formations

Santa Cruz — 51.02°S, 69.15°WSanta Cruz — 50.16°S, 69.67°WSanta Cruz — 50.27°S, 70.37°WSanta Cruz — 50.25°S, 71.07°WSanta Cruz — 50.32°S, 68.90°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.10°WSanta Cruz — 50.60°S, 69.08°WSanta Cruz — 50.00°S, 70.00°WSanta Cruz — 50.75°S, 69.18°WSanta Cruz — 47.58°S, 71.85°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.67°WSarmiento — 45.23°S, 67.49°WSarmiento — 44.02°S, 68.02°WSarmiento — 44.67°S, 68.42°WCollón Cura — 41.00°S, 70.58°WCollón Cura — 42.65°S, 69.70°WAgua de la Piedra — 36.55°S, 69.70°WCerro Boleadoras — 47.00°S, 71.62°WCerro Bandera — 39.27°S, 69.28°WChichinales — 39.13°S, 67.75°WChucal — 18.53°S, 69.17°WDeseado — 47.90°S, 66.25°WChinches — 32.00°S, 69.74°WGuanaco — 24.26°S, 65.33°WTafna — 22.03°S, 65.85°W

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The named rock units Stenotatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stenotatus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Stenotatus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

391 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Stenotatus, 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

21 references

Each of the 43 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. 9 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 Stenotatus

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