Vassallia

Vassallia is an extinct genus of cingulate belonging to the family Pampatheriidae. It lived between the Middle Oligocene and the Early Pliocene in what is now South America.

No picture of Vassallia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Vassallia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PampatheriidaePBDB
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 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 3.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 3 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 16 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 16 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 16 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 16 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 16 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.8–7.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.7–6.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.7–5.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.6–4.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.5–3.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23.04 Mya3.8 Mya34.5 Mya2.4 Mya

16 occurrences of Vassallia 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

16 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

7 formations

Chiquimil — 26.80°S, 66.07°WChiquimil — 27.11°S, 66.83°WAndalhuala — 27.22°S, 66.93°WAndahuala — 27.29°S, 66.91°WPetaca — 17.80°S, 63.17°WFray Bentos — 33.62°S, 58.42°WCorral Quemado — 27.22°S, 66.93°WEl Morterito — 26.57°S, 66.33°W

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The named rock units Vassallia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Vassallia and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Vassallia and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

70 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Vassallia, 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

7 references

Each of the 16 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 content0

No picture of Vassallia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Vassallia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Vassallia was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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.

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What may have been alongside itPampatheriidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Castellanos 1927