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    Glyptodonts are an extinct clade of large, heavily armoured armadillos, reaching up to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in height, and maximum body masses of around...
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    oυρά "tail") is an extinct genus of glyptodont from South America containing one species, D. clavicaudatus. Glyptodonts are a member of the family Chlamyphoridae...
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    Glyptotherium (from Greek for 'grooved or carved beast') is a genus of glyptodont (an extinct group of large, herbivorous armadillos) in the family Chlamyphoridae...
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    (gluptós) 'sculptured' and ὀδοντ-, ὀδούς (odont-, odoús) 'tooth') is a genus of glyptodont, an extinct group of large, herbivorous armadillos, that lived from the...
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    capable of this. Recent genetic research has shown that the megafaunal glyptodonts (up to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) tall with maximum body masses of around 2...
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    continent, with the casualties including saber-toothed cats, ground sloths, glyptodonts, gomphotheres, the equines Hippidion and Equus neogeus, and all remaining...
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    anteaters, tree sloths, and armadillos. Extinct xenarthrans include the glyptodonts, pampatheres and ground sloths. Xenarthrans originated in South America...
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    pampatheriids, which reached weights of up to 200 kg (440 lb) and chlamyphorid glyptodonts, which attained masses of 2,000 kg (4,400 lb) or more. The cingulate...
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    Poinar, H. N. (2016-02-22). "The phylogenetic affinities of the extinct glyptodonts" (PDF). Current Biology. 26 (4): R155–R156. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.01...
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    Panochthus is an extinct genus of glyptodont, which lived in the Gran Chaco-Pampean region of Argentina (Lujan, Yupoí and Agua Blanca Formations), Brazil...
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    Pleistocene Epoch. Many forms such as sabre-toothed cats, mammoths, mastodons, glyptodonts, etc., became extinct worldwide. Others, including horses, camels and...
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    (elephant relative) Cuvieronius, as well as ground sloths, toxodontids, and glyptodonts. The concept of evolutionary anachronisms/megafaunal dispersal syndrome...
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  • species of soldier fly. The genus name Parapropalaehoplophorus (a fossil glyptodont, an extinct family of mammals related to armadillos) is two letters longer...
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    Reconstruction of the glyptodont Doedicurus clavicaudatus, distributed in the temperate savannah and woodland of South America...
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    rhinoceros-like Mixotoxodon, the gomphothere (elephant-relative) Cuvieronius, the glyptodont Glyptotherium, the llama Hemiauchenia, and the horse Equus conversidens...
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    indicating that the predator successfully bit into the skull through the glyptodont's armored cephalic shield. In addition, isotopes preserved in the tooth...
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    anteaters, and armadillos, as well as the extinct ground sloths and glyptodonts. Expansion in Laurasia was dominated by Boreoeutheria, which includes...
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  • Asterostemma is an extinct genus of glyptodont. It lived during the Middle Miocene, and its fossilized remains were discovered in South America. Like all...
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    largest living species of armadillo (although their extinct relatives, the glyptodonts, were much larger). It lives in South America, ranging throughout as...
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  • Darkwing Duck, Auntie Marina in Snorks, Talula La Trane in Yo Yogi!, Glyptodont in Ice Age, Sylvia Jenkins in Free for All, Nanny in The Grim Adventures...
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    Chlamyphoridae is a family of cingulate mammals. While glyptodonts have traditionally been considered stem-group cingulates outside the group that contains...
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    dinosaurs and of some mammals, most notably the ankylosaurids and the glyptodonts, as well as meiolaniid turtles. It is thought that this was a form of...
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    (elephant-relative) Notiomastodon, the equines Equus neogeus and Hippidion, and the glyptodonts (car-sized relatives of armadillos) Glyptodon and Doedicurus, the bear...
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    The largest prehistoric animals include both vertebrate and invertebrate species. Many of them are described below, along with their typical range of size...
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  • septentrionalis was a comparatively small (compared to Glyptodon) species of glyptodont, extinct relatives of the modern armadillo. The mammal, identified in...
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    while those from the Cenozoic include a giant terror bird, an armored glyptodont, the giant seabird Pelagornis sandersi, a hyaenodont, and fossil crocodilians...
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    for crushing vertebrae, or for tearing open armored animals such as glyptodonts.[citation needed] However, teeth are made of unsupported enamel, and...
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    member of the extinct ungulate order Litopterna Life restoration of the glyptodonts Doedicurus (front) and Glyptodon Dromornis stirtoni Asian paraceratheriid...
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    This is a list of South American animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11...
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  • multituberculate mammals. Many modern mammal groups begin to appear: first glyptodonts, ground sloths, canids, peccaries, and the first eagles and hawks. Diversity...
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