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Panochthus is an extinct genus of glyptodont, which lived in the Gran Chaco-Pampean region of Argentina (Lujan, Yupoí and Agua Blanca Formations), Brazil (Jandaíra Formation), Bolivia (Tarija and Ñuapua Formations), Paraguay and Uruguay (Sopas and Dolores Formations) during the Pleistocene epoch.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panochthus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4832814	https://www.gbif.org/species/4832814
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	43587	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=43587

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cingulata : Glyptodontidae : Panochthus

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Xenarthra : Panochthidae : Panochthus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Americatheria	Shockey 2017
-	Xenarthra
suborder	Glyptodontia
infraorder	Glyptodontoinei	Gray 1869
superfamily	Glyptodontoidea	Gray 1869
family	Panochthidae	Castellanos 1927
genus	Panochthus	Burmeister 1866

Scientific Name

Panochthus Burmeister, 1866

Name Published In

Anal. Mus. Pub. Buenos Aires, 1

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Panochthus	genus	belongs to Hoplophoridae	stated with evidence	Ameghino, 1889
Panochthus	genus	belongs to Glyptodontidae	stated without evidence	Lydekker, 1894
Panochthus	genus	belongs to Sclerocalyptidae	stated without evidence	Brown, 1912
Panochthus	genus	belongs to Panochthini	stated with evidence	Hoffstetter, 1958
Panochthus	genus	belongs to Glyptodontidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Panochthus	genus	belongs to Panochthini	stated without evidence	McKenna and Bell, 1997
Panochthus	genus	belongs to Panochthini	stated with evidence	Zurita et al., 2004
Panochthus	genus	belongs to Panochthidae	stated with evidence	Fernicola, 2008
Panochthus	genus	belongs to Panochthini	stated without evidence	Soibelzon et al., 2010

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

3.60 - 2.59 Ma
Cenozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

0.01 Ma
Pleistocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

omnivore (based on Xenarthra)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panochthus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Glyptodon tuberculatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Panochthus bullifer ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Panochthus greslebini ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0.01 Ma Pleistocene
Panochthus intermedius ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Panochthus subintermedius ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Panochthus trouessarti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Panochthus tuberculatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		11	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0.78 Ma Pleistocene
Panochtus frenzelianus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Panochtus nodotianus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Panochtus voghii ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Panochtus Burmeister, 1866	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cingulata : Glyptodontidae : *Panochtus*
Panochtus Ameghino, 1884	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cingulata : Glyptodontidae : *Panochtus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1866	Panochthus Burmeister
1889	Panochtus Ameghino p. 829
1894	Panochthus Lydekker p. 28
1912	Panochthus Brown
1958	Panochthus Hoffstetter
1988	Panochthus Carroll
1997	Panochthus McKenna and Bell p. 90
2004	Panochthus Zurita et al.
2008	Panochthus Fernicola
2010	Panochthus Soibelzon et al. p. 459

References

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Ameghino F. Contribución al conocimiento de los mamíferos fósiles de la República Argentina [Contribution to the knowledge of the fossil mammals of the Argentine Republic], Actas de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de la República Argentina en Córdoba 6, xxxii-1027

Lydekker R. Contributions to a knowledge of the fossil vertebrates of Argentina. II. 2. The extinct edentates of Argentina, Anales del Museo de La Plata. Paleontología Argentina 3, 1-118

Brown B. (1912) Brachyostracon, a new genus of glyptodonts from Mexico, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 31 17, 167-177

McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640

Zurita A. E., Carlini A. A., et al (2004) Mamíferos extintos del Cuaternario de la Provincia del Chaco (Argentina) y su relación con aquéllos del este de la región pampeana y de Chile, Revista geológica de Chile 31 1, 65-87

Soibelzon E., Miño-Boilini A. M., et al (2010) Los Xenarhtra (Mammalia) del Ensenadense (Pleistoceno inferior a medio) de la Región Pampeana (Argentina), Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológica 27 3, 449-469

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/McKenna & Bell, 1997 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Anal. Mus. Pub. Buenos Aires, 1 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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