Valgipes bucklandi

Miño-Boilini, Ángel R., and Alfredo E. Zurita. · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- ValgipesPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Mylodontidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Mylodontidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Valgipes bucklandi 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
6 occurrences- Pleistocene96%
- Holocene5%
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.
Valgipes bucklandi and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Valgipes bucklandi and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Cervidae3 sites
- Smilodon populator3 sites
- Tayassu pecari3 sites
- Catonyx cuvieri2 sites
- Neochoerus2 sites
- Nothrotherium maquinense2 sites
- Notiomastodon platensis2 sites
- Pachyarmatherium brasiliense2 sites
- Palaeolama major2 sites
- Scelidotheriinae2 sites
- Tapirus2 sites
- Xenarthra2 sites
- Amphibia1 site
- Carnivora1 site
- Cervus gouazoubira1 site
- Chelonoidis1 site
- Chrysocyon brachyurus1 site
- Cuniculus paca1 site
- Didelphis1 site
- Doedicurus clavicaudatus1 site
- Equus caballus1 site
- Euphractus sexcinctus1 site
- Felidae1 site
- Glossotherium robustum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Valgipes bucklandi, 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
5 references- Diversity and preservation of Pleistocene tetrapods from caves of southwestern Bahia, Brazil2
- Cervidae and Tayassuidae from the Holocene deposits of the Cuvieri Cave, State of Minas Gerais, eastern Brazil; taxonomic and paleoenvironmental considerations1
- Presence of the ground sloth Valgipes bucklandi (Xenarthra, Folivora, Scelidotheriinae) in southern Uruguay during the Late Pleistocene: Ecological and biogeographical implications1
- Record of the giant sloth Valgipes bucklandi (Lund, 1839) (Tardigrada, Scelidotheriinae) in Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil, with notes on taphonomy and paleoecology1
- Les gravigrades (Edentes Xenarthres) des cavernes de Lagoa Santa (Minas Gerais, Bresil)1
Each of the 6 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 content1

Picture of Valgipes bucklandi
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Miño-Boilini, Ángel R., and Alfredo E. Zurita.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Valgipes bucklandi 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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What may have been alongside itValgipes through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lund 1839)