Vetelia puncta
No picture of Vetelia puncta 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 Vetelia puncta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VeteliaPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Dasypodidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Dasypodidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Vetelia puncta 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
4 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
- Santa Cruz Formation3
- Cerro Boleadoras Formation · Río Zeballos Group1
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The named rock units Vetelia puncta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Vetelia puncta and its relatives
MioceneWhere Vetelia puncta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Acarechimys minutus2 sites
- Interatherium2 sites
- Acarechimys1 site
- Acarechimys minutissimus1 site
- Acaremys murinus1 site
- Adelphomyinae1 site
- Anisolophus1 site
- Araucaria marensii1 site
- Boleatherium praeludium1 site
- Borhyaena tuberata1 site
- Brontornis burmeisteri1 site
- Calyptocephalella1 site
- Caviomorpha1 site
- Chelonoidis gringorum1 site
- Cladosictis patagonica1 site
- Doroteoxylon vicentiperezii1 site
- Eocardia montana1 site
- Eucryphiaceoxylon eucryphioides1 site
- Faboideae1 site
- Hegetotherium mirabile1 site
- Interatheriinae1 site
- Luantus propheticus1 site
- Megatherioidea1 site
- Myrceugenia chubutense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Vetelia puncta, 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- Paleobiology of Santacrucian glyptodonts and armadillos (Xenarthra, Cingulata)2
- Fossil vertebrates of the early-middle Miocene Cerro Boleadoras Formation, northwestern Santa Cruz Province, Patagonia, Argentina1
- First phylogenetic analysis of the Miocene armadillo Vetelia reveals novel affinities with Tolypeutinae1
Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Vetelia puncta 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 Vetelia puncta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vetelia puncta was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itVetelia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1891