Temporal range: Pleistocene (Ensenadan-Lujanian) ~0.126–0.001 Ma
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Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Cingulata
Family:
Chlamyphoridae
Subfamily:
†Glyptodontinae
Genus:
†Neosclerocalyptus Couto, 1957
Type species
†Glyptodon ornatus
Owen, 1845
Other Species
N. castellanosiZurita et al. 2013
N. gouldiZurita et al. 2008
N. paskoensis(Zurita 2002)
N. pseudornatus(Ameghino, 1889)
Synonyms
ChacusZurita 2002
SclerocalyptusAmeghino 1891
Synonyms of N. ornatus
Glyptodon ornatus Owen, 1845
Hoplophorus ornatus (Owen, 1845)
Sclerocalyptus ornatus (Owen, 1845)
Synonyms of N. paskoensis
Chacus paskoensis Zurita, 2002
Synonyms of N. pseudornatus
Hoplophorus pseudornatus Ameghino, 1889
Lomaphorus pseudornatus (Ameghino, 1889)
Sclerocalyptus pseudornatus (Ameghino, 1889)
Neosclerocalyptus was an extinct genus of glyptodont that lived during the Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene of Southern South America, mostly Argentina.[1] It was small compared to many glyptodonts at only around 2 meters long and 360 kilograms.[2]
^Zurita, A. E.; Scarano, A. C.; Carlini, A. A.; Scillato-Yané, G. J.; Soibelzon, E. (2011). "Neosclerocalyptus spp. (Cingulata: Glyptodontidae: Hoplophorini): Cranial morphology and palaeoenvironments along the changing Quaternary". Journal of Natural History. 45 (15–16): 893. Bibcode:2011JNatH..45..893Z. doi:10.1080/00222933.2010.536917. S2CID 85146482.
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Neosclerocalyptus. Hoplophorus compressus Ameghino, 1882; Holotype osteoderms' supposed diagnostic traits are the same as those in Neosclerocalyptus species...
Glyptodon, Hoplophorus, Glyptotherium, Panochthus, Doedicurus and Neosclerocalyptus, abruptly became extinct around 12,000 years ago as part of the Late...
This is similar to that of Neosclerocalyptus, but in contrast to Hoplophorus which had sharper wear ends. Neosclerocalyptus favored more open environments...
reticulatus, G. tuberculatus (now Panochthus), and G. ornatus (now Neosclerocalyptus). The type specimen was a partial tail which seemed to indicate a...
it was closer in appearance and classification to Panochthus and Neosclerocalyptus (then Sclerocalyptus). Barnum Brown believed that his genus Brachyostracon...
fused with a terminal caudal tube, similar to that of Neosclerocalyptus. Unlike Neosclerocalyptus, the large lateral osteoderms covering the skull of Stromaphorus...
causing further taxonomic confusion. Many of these actually belonged to Neosclerocalyptus, the genus later created for H. ornatus. Believing that the genus...
sloth Megatherium americanum Temperate South America and the Andes Hunting. 5120 BC Neosclerocalyptus paskoensis Southern South America Undetermined....
pentadactyl and equipped with toes and large fingers, similar to those of Neosclerocalyptus. The scapula was still relatively high and narrow, while the humerus...
among which the most outstanding ones are an Eutatus seguini, a Neosclerocalyptus and a Glyptodon clavipes. The specimens from Rodrigo Botet's collection...
†Eosclerophorus Castellanos 1948 Genus †Trabalia Kraglievich 1932 Genus †Neosclerocalyptus Paula Couto 1957 Tribe †Palaehoplophorini Hoffstetter 1958 Genus †Palaehoplophorus...
material that may be the holotype that shows many similarities to Neosclerocalyptus. Possibly synonymous with N. pseudornatus or N. ornatus, but further...
Eosclerocalyptus is a genus of glyptodont close to the ancestry of Neosclerocalyptus. A. A. Tauber. 2005. Mamíferos fósiles y edad de la Formación Salicas...
study on the skull anatomy of specimens of Glyptodon, Doedicurus, Neosclerocalyptus and Panochthus from the Pampean Region of Argentina present in the...
however, it was recently placed closer to the genera Lomaphorus and Neosclerocalyptus. Cruz, L. E. and Fernicola, J. C. 2010. Las especies del género Trachycalyptus...
Luna; Daniel Boh; Mariano Magnussen Saffer (2013). "A new species of Neosclerocalyptus Paula Couto (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Cingulata): the oldest record of...
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