An extinct genus of mammals belonging to the armadillo order of xenarthrans
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Neuryurus
Temporal range: Late Pliocene-Early Holocene (Uquian-Lujanian) ~2.5–0.009 Ma
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Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Cingulata
Family:
Chlamyphoridae
Subfamily:
†Glyptodontinae
Genus:
†Neuryurus Ameghino, 1889
Type species
†Neuryurus rudis
Gervais, 1878
Species
N. giganteusRovereto 1914
N. interundatusAmeghino 1885
N. rudisGervais 1878
N. solidusRovereto 1914
Synonyms
EuryurusGervais & Ameghino 1878
Neuryurus is an extinct genus of glyptodont. It lived from the Late Pliocene to the Early Holocene, and its fossilized remains were discovered in South America.
earlier but already used by a genus of millipedes. Neuryurus is mostly known from its type species, Neuryurus rudis, typical of the Early and Middle Pleistocene...
the Pleistocene, alongside Glyptodon, Neosclerocalyptus, Hoplophorus, Neuryurus, and Panochthus. Glyptodonts generally inhabited open grassland with temperate...
been unearthed alongside the contemporary glyptodontines Doedicurus, Neuryurus, Panochthus; armadillos Chaetophractus, Propaeopus, and Eutatus; and the...
status of U. antiquus, another species, is disputed between the genera Neuryurus and Plohophorus. Urotherium was a genus of glyptodont of uncertain affinities...
cementum instead of enamel. Neosclerocalyptus and its distant relative Neuryurus bear narrower muzzles and being less hypsodont than larger glyptodonts...
online by Arbour & Zanno (2019). New fossil material of the glyptodont Neuryurus, including associated remains of carapace and endoskeletal bones, is described...
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