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Not sure that's how it works. I think the river/streams while changing it's course exposes the fossils. I've never found an entire glyptodon but I have a coupl
by is_true 2y ago
Not sure that's how it works. I think the river/streams while changing it's course exposes the fossils.
I've never found an entire glyptodon but I have a couple of pieces of the shells that I found while fishing in small streams. There's one stream in which you almost always find some piece.
I'm sure in that same stream there must be some entire shells because some of the plates I found aren't eroded at all, which indicates that it didn't move much from where the rest of the shell is.
- Qem 2y ago> Not sure that's how it works. I think the river/streams while changing it's course exposes the fossils. That gives me another hypothesis, about how they died together. Some of those critters dug burrows, we still find those today[1]. It's likely sometimes those burrows caved in, entombing its inhabitants. Perhaps they were sheltering in their burrow, and died together when it caved. Then their remains spent thousands of years undisturbed underground, until the river changed course, exposing them. > I've never found an entire glyptodon but I have a couple of pieces of the shells that I found while fishing in small streams. Giant sloths had these bone plates under their skins as well (both sloths and armadillos belong to the order Xenarthra[2], together with anteaters), some were even found with evidence of being used as pendants by paleoindians[3]. [1] https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/en/shelter-for-giants/ https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/en/shelter-for-giants/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenarthra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenarthra [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41520020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41520020
- is_true 2y agoDidn't know about the sloths but osteoderms from glyptodons are quite different.