An extinct genus of mammals belonging to the armadillo order of xenarthrans
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Eucinepeltus
Temporal range: Early Miocene- ~17–16 Ma
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Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Cingulata
Family:
Chlamyphoridae
Subfamily:
†Glyptodontinae
Genus:
†Eucinepeltus Ameghino, 1891
Type species
†Encinepeltus petesatus
Ameghino 1891
Species
E. petesatusAmeghino 1891
E. complicatusBrown 1903
E. crassusScott 1903
E. informisRoth 1899
Eucinepeltus (also often called, historically, Encinepeltus) is an extinct genus of glyptodont. It lived during the Early Miocene, and its fossilized remains were discovered in South America.
Eucinepeltus (also often called, historically, Encinepeltus) is an extinct genus of glyptodont. It lived during the Early Miocene, and its fossilized remains...
glyptodonts (members of the "Austral clade" other than Propalaehoplophorus and Eucinepeltus), the end of the tail was covered in a completely fused "caudal tube"...
Propalaehoplophorini, and related to the genera Propalaehoplophorus, Asterostemma and Eucinepeltus. Modern cladistic analysis suggests that Propalaehoplophorini is a paraphyletic...
Asterostemma cf. A. depressa A glyptodont Cochlops C. muricatus A glyptodont Eucinepeltus E. petesatus A glyptodont Metopotoxus M. laevatus A glyptodont Parutaetus...
glyptodonts, such as Asterostemma, Propalaehoplophorus, Cochlops and Eucinepeltus. The specialisation of Stegotherium may have caused the extinction of...
Schismotherium, Trematherium, and Xyophorus, and the armadillos Cochlops, Eucinepeltus, Proeutatus, Propalaehoplophorus, Prozaedyus, Stegotherium, and Stenotatus...
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