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individual scutes. Some
glyptodonts had
clubbed tails,
similar to
ankylosaurid dinosaurs. The
earliest widely recognised fossils of
glyptodonts in
South America...
- and
Strange Jaws: How
Glyptodonts Masticated" (PDF). Acta
Palaeontologica Polonica. Gillette, R. (21
December 1981). "
Glyptodonts of
North America" (PDF)...
- from the
extinct South American giant glyptodont Doedicurus sp. (Xenarthra: Glyptodontidae)
reveals that
glyptodonts evolved from
Eocene armadillos". Molecular...
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approximate 1,400 kg (3,100 lb), it was one of the
largest glyptodonts to have ever lived.
Though glyptodonts were quadrupeds,
large ones like
Doedicurus may have...
- anteaters, tree sloths, and armadillos.
Extinct xenarthrans include the
glyptodonts,
pampatheres and
ground sloths.
Xenarthrans originated in
South America...
- pampatheriids,
which reached weights of up to 200 kg (440 lb) and
chlamyphorid glyptodonts,
which attained m****es of 2,000 kg (4,400 lb) or more. The cingulate...
-
glyptodonts, but
Glyptotherium also was more
defenseless than
glyptodonts like Doedicurus.
Glyptotherium is the only
known North American glyptodont and...
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suggest that Panochthus, like all
other glyptodonts, is part of the
armadillo family Chlamyphoridae. In 2022,
glyptodonts were
divided into two main clades:...
- Doedicurus, Propalaehoplophorus, or as a more
basal Glyptodont. Recently, as more
complete remains of
glyptodonts and
reanalysis of
older fossils, phylogenetic...
- rhinoceros-like Mixotoxodon, the
gomphothere (elephant-relative) Cuvieronius, the
glyptodont Glyptotherium, the
llama Hemiauchenia, and the
horse Equus conversidens...
