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Tonnicinctus fossil map

Where fossils of Tonnicinctus have been found, shown on the Earth as it looked about 0 million years ago and on today’s map.

Dots are fossil collections recorded in the Paleobiology Database. The “then” view moves today’s fossil sites back to their positions 0 million years ago (the time slice nearest the median age of the fossils) using the Merdith et al. (2021) plate model; positions are approximate. Open on the timeline map →

Tonnicinctus
Image: Flávio Góis, Laureano Raúl González Ruiz, Gustavo Juan Scillato-Yané & Esteban Soibelzon, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
GroupEarly mammals
Lived1.75–0.0117 million years ago (Calabrian to Late Pleistocene)
PeriodsQuaternary
FamilyPampatheriidae
Named byGóis et al. 2015
Fossil records4 occurrences at 2 locations (PBDB)
Found inArgentina
Rock formationstxn:93606

About Tonnicinctus

Tonnicinctus is an extinct species of pampatheriid that lived in Argentina during the Pleistocene and Holocene.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Tonnicinctus (revision 1314661175), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; introduction excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Ages, family, authority and fossil records: Paleobiology Database, accessed 23 October 2026. Ages are those of the rock layers the fossils were found in. Wikidata: Q21050990.

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