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Pampatheriidae ✝

Description

Pampatheriidae ("Pampas beasts") is an extinct family of large plantigrade armored xenarthrans related to armadillos. However, pampatheriids have existed as a separate lineage since at least the middle Eocene Mustersan age, 45 to 48 million years ago. Pampatheres evolved in South America during its long period of Cenozoic isolation. Although widespread, they were less diverse and abundant than the armadillos. Holmesina spread to North America after the formation of the Isthmus of Panama as part of the Great American Interchange. They finally disappeared on both continents in the end-Pleistocene extinctions, about 12,000 years ago.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4832785https://www.gbif.org/species/4832785
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)93606https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=93606
Rankfamily
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cingulata : Pampatheriidae
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Xenarthra : Pampatheriidae
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SynapsidaOsborn 1903
-Therapsida
infraorderCynodontia
-EpicynodontiaHopson and Kitching 2001
infraorderEucynodontiaKemp 1982
-ProbainognathiaHopson 1990
-MammaliamorphaRowe 1988
-MammaliaformesRowe 1988
classMammaliaLinnaeus 1758
subclassTribosphenida
infraclassEutheria
-PlacentaliaOwen 1837
-AmericatheriaShockey 2017
-Xenarthra
suborderGlyptodontia
infraorderGlyptodontoineiGray 1869
superfamilyGlyptodontoideaGray 1869
familyPampatheriidaePaula Couto 1954
Scientific NamePampatheriidae
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Pampatheriidaefamilybelongs to Cingulatastated without evidenceMacFadden et al., 1993
Pampatheriidaefamilybelongs to Dasypodoideastated without evidenceDowning and White, 1995
Pampatheriidaefamilybelongs to Glyptodontoideastated without evidenceMcKenna and Bell, 1997
Pampatheriidaefamilybelongs to Cingulatastated without evidenceMcDonald and Naples, 2007
Pampatheriidaefamilybelongs to Glyptodontoideastated without evidenceRincón et al., 2008
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)26
First Recorded Appearance29.0 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic
Last Recorded Appearance0.13 Ma
Pleistocene
Environmentterrestrial (based on Eutheria)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Dietomnivore (based on Xenarthra)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)K. F. Downing and R. S. White. 1995. The cingulates (Xenarthra) of the Leisey Shell Pit local fauna (Irvingtonian), Hillsborough County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(12):375-396
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampatheriidae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Holmesina
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
904.90 Ma
Pliocene
0.13 Ma
Pleistocene
Kraglievichia
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
611.6 Ma
Miocene
9.00 Ma
Miocene
Machlydotherium
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
848.6 Ma
Eocene
29.0 Ma
Oligocene
Pampatherium
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
396.80 Ma
Miocene
0.13 Ma
Pleistocene
Plaina
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
116.80 Ma
Miocene
4.00 Ma
Pliocene
Scirrotherium
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1523.0 Ma
Miocene
9.00 Ma
Miocene
Vassallia
genus
doubtful (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1429.0 Ma
Oligocene
4.00 Ma
Pliocene

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1954Pampatheriidae Paula Couto
1993Pampatheriidae MacFadden et al. p. 235
1995Pampatheriidae Downing and White p. 389
1997Pampatheriidae McKenna and Bell p. 86
2007Pampatheriidae McDonald and Naples p. 152
2008Pampatheriidae Rincón et al. p. 201

References

Downing K. F., White R. S. (1995) The cingulates (Xenarthra) of the Leisey Shell Pit local fauna (Irvingtonian), Hillsborough County, Florida, Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37 12, 375-396
MacFadden B. J., Anaya F., et al (1993) Magnetic polarity stratigraphy of Inchasi: a Pliocene mammal-bearing locality from the Bolivian Andes deposited just before the Great American Interchange, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 114 2-3, 229-241
McKenna M. C., Bell S. K. (1997) , Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, 1-640
McDonald H. G., Naples V. L. (2007) Xenarthra, Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America 2, 147-160
Rincón A. D., White R. S., et al (2008) Late Pleistocene cingulates (Mammalia: Xenarthra) from Mene de Inciarte tar pits, Sierra de Perijá, western Venezuela, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 1, 197-207
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - 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
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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