Tamandua tetradactyla
The southern tamandua, also called the collared anteater or lesser anteater, is a species of anteater from South America and the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. It is a solitary animal found in many habitats, from mature to highly disturbed secondary forests and arid savannas. It feeds on ants, termites, and bees. Its very strong foreclaws can be used to break insect nests and to defend itself.
Sinara Conessa · CC BY 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- Also called
- southern tamanduaPBDB
- Sits inside
- TamanduaPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Myrmecophagidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Myrmecophagidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Mass
- 4.8 kgWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Tamandua tetradactyla on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
3 occurrences- Holocene100%
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.
Tamandua tetradactyla and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Tamandua tetradactyla and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
115 taxa- Alouatta seniculus3 sites
- Coendou prehensilis3 sites
- Cuniculus paca3 sites
- Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus3 sites
- Didelphis marsupialis3 sites
- Eira barbara3 sites
- Myrmecophaga tridactyla3 sites
- Oryzomys3 sites
- Pecari tajacu3 sites
- Puma concolor3 sites
- Sciurus3 sites
- Ateles paniscus2 sites
- Caluromys lanatus2 sites
- Cervus gouazoubira2 sites
- Cyclopes2 sites
- Dasyprocta2 sites
- Galictis vittata2 sites
- Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris2 sites
- Leopardus pardalis2 sites
- Lontra longicaudis2 sites
- Mazama americana2 sites
- Mesomys2 sites
- Metachirus nudicaudatus2 sites
- Nasua nasua2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Tamandua tetradactyla, 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
3 references- Central Amazonian Forests and the Minimum Crtical Size of Ecosystems Project1
- An Overview of Research at Cocha Cashu Biological Station1
- Density, Productivity, and Distribution of Mammals in Two Venezuelan Habitats1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content3
Picture of Tamandua tetradactyla
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Sinara Conessa
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Credit
- AMNH Mammal Collections
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Tamandua tetradactyla · amnh:mammals:77702
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- silvarogerio
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTamandua through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)