Stegotherium

Stegotherium; Temporal range: Early Miocene (Colhuehuapian-Santacrucian); ~21.0–16.3 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
	Skeleton
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Cingulata
Family:	Dasypodidae
Subfamily:	Dasypodinae
Tribe:	Stegotheriini†
Genus:	Stegotherium †; Ameghino, 1887
Species
	S. notohippidensis González & Scillato-Yané, 2009; S. simplex Ameghino, 1887; S. tauberi González & Scillato-Yané, 2008; S. tesselatum Ameghino, 1887 (type species); S. variegatum Ameghino, 1902;
Synonyms
	Scotaeops simplex Ameghino, 1887;

Stegotherium is an extinct genus of armadillo in the family Dasypodidae from Early Miocene (Colhuehuapian to Santacrucian) Argentina (Santa Cruz and Sarmiento Formations).^[2]^[3]

Gallery

^ González Laureano Raúl, Scillato-Yané Gustavo Juan. Una nueva especie de Stegotherium Ameghino (Xenarthra, Dasypodidae, Stegotheriini) del Mioceno de la provincia de Santa Cruz (Argentina). Ameghiniana, 2008 Dic; 45(4): 641-648.
^ Stegotherium at Fossilworks.org
^ González Ruiz, L. R. L.; Scillato-Yané, G. J. (2009). "A new Stegotheriini (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Dasypodidae) from the "Notohippidian" (early Miocene) of Patagonia, Argentina". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 252: 81. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2009/0252-0081.

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