Eutatus
Sign in to saveEutatus is an extinct genus of large armadillos of the family Chlamyphoridae. It was endemic to South America from the Early Miocene to Late Pleistocene, living from 17.5 Ma-11,000 years ago, with possible survival into the early Holocene (~ 7,500 BP) and existing for approximately .
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- Parent taxon
- Dasypodidae
- Image
- Eutatus seguini skull.JPG
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- Commons category
- Dasypodidae skeletons
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Eutatus
- start time
- 17500000-0
- end time
- 12000-00-0
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Eutatus is an extinct genus of large armadillos of the family Chlamyphoridae. It was endemic to South America from the Early Miocene to Late Pleistocene, living from 17.5 Ma-11,000 years ago, with possible survival into the early Holocene (~ 7,500 BP) and existing for approximately .
== Taxonomy == Eutatus was named by Gervais (1867). The type species is E. seguini. It was assigned to Dasypodidae by Carroll (1988).
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