Glyptodont
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Glyptodonts are an extinct clade of large, heavily armored armadillos, reaching up to 1.5 metres in height, and maximum body masses of around 2 tonnes. They had short, deep skulls, a fused vertebral c
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Doedicurus and Glyptodon by Robert Bruce Horsfall
Detail of Propalaehoplophorus scutes, early Miocene, in the permanent collection of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Peltephilus ferox
Doedicurus
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Doedicurus, from Ancient Greek δοῖδυξ, meaning "pestle" and oυρά, meaning "tail", is an extinct genus of glyptodont from South America containing one species, D. clavicaudatus. Glyptodonts are a membe
Glyptodont
…the distinct family Glyptodontidae, with their relationships to modern armadillos being contested. In 2016, an analysis of the mitochondrial genome of Doedicurus found that it was, in fact, nested within the modern armadillos as the sister group of a clade consisting of Chlamyphorinae (fairy armadillos) and…
Doedicurus fossil in Brazil
Skull of Doedicurus from the front and right
The depressions on the tail club may have supported spikes