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
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
Glyptodon
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Glyptodon is a genus of glyptodont, an extinct group of large, herbivorous armadillos that lived from the Pliocene, around 3.2 million years ago, to the early Holocene, around 11,000 years ago, in Sou
Panochthus
…consisted of two carapace (shell) fragments, now lost, recovered from Buenos Aires. In 1845, the fragments were referred by Sir Richard Owen to the genus Glyptodon. In 1864, working from more complete remains, Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister erected Panochthus as a subgenus. Three years later, he elevated it to the…
Glyptodon 1
Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), describer of Megatherium
A skeleton of Megatherium, which was confused with Glyptodon for decades.
Portrait of Sir Richard Owen (1804–1892), describer of Glyptodon.