Plaxhaplous

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Plaxhaplous
Temporal range: Early-Mid Pleistocene (Uquian-Ensenadan)
~2.588–0.781 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Superorder:
Xenarthra
Order:
Cingulata
Family:
Chlamyphoridae
Subfamily:
†Glyptodontinae
Genus:
†Plaxhaplous
Species:
†P. canaliculatus
Binomial name
Plaxhaplous canaliculatus

Plaxhaplous was a genus of glyptodont, an extinct relative of the modern armadillo. It lived in the Pleistocene epoch.[1] The type species is Plaxhaplous canaliculatus.[2] Plaxhaplous canaliculatus fossils were found in Argentina, near Luján in Buenos Aires Province.[2] Plaxhaplous fossils have also been found in Uruguay.[1] and in the Charana Formation of Bolivia.[3]

Etymology

The name Plaxhaplous means simple, flat surface.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Rinderknecht, A. (1999). "Estudios Sobre la Familia Glyptodontidae" (PDF). Comunicaciones Paleantologicas del Museo Historia Natural de Montervideo. 2 (31). Retrieved 2015-04-07.
  2. ^ a b c North America Fauna. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1904. pp. 546, 817. Retrieved 2015-04-07.
  3. ^ Plaxhaplous at Fossilworks.org


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