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Plohophorus
Temporal range: Late Miocene – Late Pliocene ~8–3 Ma
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Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Cingulata
Family:
Chlamyphoridae
Subfamily:
†Glyptodontinae
Genus:
†Plohophorus Ameghino, 1887
Type species
Plohophorus figuratus
Ameghino, 1887
Species
P. barrancalobensisZamorano & Scillato-Yané, 2011
P. coronatusRovereto, 1914
P. cuneiformisAmeghino, 1904
P. figuratusAmeghino, 1887
P. paranensisAmeghino, 1895
P. sygmaturusAmeghino, 1895
P. yrigoyeniYrigoyen, 1954
P. avellanedaQuiñones, Cuadrelli, Reyes, Luna, Poiré & Zurita, 2023
Synonyms
Plohophorus araucanusAmeghino, 1904
Plohophorus australisMoreno, 1888
Plohophorus orientalisAmeghino, 1889
Urotherium antiquumAmeghino, 1888
Plohophorus is an extinct genus of glyptodont. it lived from the Late Miocene to the Late Pliocene, and its fossilized remains were discovered in South America.
is Plohophorus figuratus; several other species from the Late Miocene and the Early Pliocene were also attributed to the genus, such as Plohophorus paranensis...
Hoplophorus was a descendant of Propalaehoplophorus, Palaehoplophorus, and Plohophorus based on the transition of the osteoderms from large, central nodes into...
of the tribe Hoplophorini, along with its relatives Hoplophorus and Plohophorus. Modern cladistic analysis suggests that Palaehoplophorus is more closely...
with South American glyptodonts like Panochthus, Neosclerocalyptus, and Plohophorus. George Gaylord Simpson classified his genus Boreostracon as a close...
points of the furrows. Its appearance was probably quite similar to Plohophorus. The genus Coscinocercus was first described in 1939 by Cabrera, based...
Large, armored glyptodonts like Palaehoplophorus, Eleutherocercus, and Plohophorus lived in the area as well as other cingulates like the pampatheres Kraglievichia...
Hoplophractus tapinocefalus Laguna de los Paraguayos Salinas de Hidalgo Plohophorus araucanus Salinas de Hidalgo Proscelidodon gracillimus Estancia Don Mariano...
†Phlyctaenopyga Cabrera 1944 Genus †Plohophorops Rusconi 1934 Genus †Plohophorus Ameghino 1887 Genus †Pseudoplohophorus Castellanos 1926 Genus †Teisseiria...
Large, armored glyptodonts like Palaehoplophorus, Eleutherocercus, and Plohophorus lived in the area as well as other cingulates like the pampatheres Kraglievichia...
; Luna, C. A.; Poiré, D. G.; Zurita, A. E. (2023). "A new species of Plohophorus Ameghino (Cingulata, Glyptodontidae) from the latest Pliocene–earliest...
for a species of Late Miocene glyptodont first ascribed to the genus Plohophorus, P. ameghini. Cabrera also attributed the species Nopachthus trouessarti...
antiquus, another species, is disputed between the genera Neuryurus and Plohophorus. Urotherium was a genus of glyptodont of uncertain affinities, variously...
Large, armored glyptodonts like Palaehoplophorus, Eleutherocercus, and Plohophorus lived in the area as well as other cingulates like the pampatheres Kraglievichia...
nomen nudum, referred to Lomaphorus by Lydekker (1894). Lomaphorus (Plohophorus) orientalis (Ameghino, 1889); Holotype is a caudal tube fragment (MACN-A ...
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