Propalaehoplophorus
Appearance
Propalaehoplophorus | |
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Propalaeohoplophorus minus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Cingulata |
Family: | Chlamyphoridae |
Subfamily: | †Glyptodontinae |
Genus: | †Propalaehoplophorus Ameghino 1887 |
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Propalaehoplophorus, also written as Propalaeohoplophorus, is an extinct genus of glyptodont, which lived in South America during the Early Miocene epoch.[1]
Distribution
Fossils of Propalaehoplophorus have been found in the Santa Cruz Formation of Argentina, the Honda Group and Nazareno Formation of Bolivia and the Río Frías Formation of Chile.[2]
Gallery
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Restorations of Hapalops longiceps and Propalaeohoplophorus australis
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Detail of a P. australis scute, early Miocene, in the permanent collection of The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Propalaeohoplophorus.
- ^ Vizcaíno, S. F.; Blanco, R. E.; Bender, J. B. N.; Milne, N. (2011). "Proportions and function of the limbs of glyptodonts". Lethaia. 44: 93. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2010.00228.x.
- ^ Propalaehoplophorus at Fossilworks.org