Vassallia maxima

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VassalliaPBDB
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 1.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5 Mya to 3.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 8 Mya to 3 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 10 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences8.1–7.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.9–7.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.7–7.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.5–7.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.3–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.9–6.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.3–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.5–5.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5 Mya3.8 Mya8.5 Mya2.5 Mya

10 occurrences of Vassallia maxima 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

10 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

5 formations

Andalhuala — 27.22°S, 66.93°WChiquimil — 27.11°S, 66.83°WCorral Quemado — 27.22°S, 66.93°WEl Morterito — 26.57°S, 66.33°WAndahuala — 27.29°S, 66.91°W

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

Vassallia maxima and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Vassallia maxima and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

46 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Vassallia maxima, 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

4 references

Each of the 10 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 maxima 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 Vassallia maxima, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Vassallia maxima 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 itVassallia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Castellanos 1946