Hoplophorus
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Hoplophorus is an extinct genus of glyptodont, a subfamily of armadillos. The only confidently known species was H. euphractus, found in Pleistocene deposits in Brazil, though fossils possibly from an
Hoplophorus sp
Peltephilus ferox
Pampatherium bpk
Panochthus
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Panochthus is an extinct genus of glyptodont, which lived in the Gran Chaco-Pampean region of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay during the Pleistocene epoch. The first specimen of Panoc
Hoplophorus
…Brazilian states of Piauí and Pernambuco. After more recent redescription, however, notable differences with Neosclerocalyptus and some similarities with Panochthus have been found in the holotype of H. euphractus. Hoplophorus is currently considered a typical member of the glyptodonts, very close to the genus…
Panochthus frenzelianus
Portrait of Sir Richard Owen, describer of the fragments which would later form the (now lost) syntypes of Panochthus.
Three glyptodonts: Glyptodon (left), part of the traditional glyptodontine clade, and Panochthus (middle), and Doedicurus (right), part of the Austral clade
Skull of Panochthus