Mammalia - Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Alternative combination: Tatu bellus
Full reference: G. G. Simpson. 1929. Pleistocene mammalian fauna of the Seminole Field, Pinellas County, Florida. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 56(8):561-599
Belongs to Dasypus according to A. D. Rincón et al. 2008
See also Auffenberg 1957, Downing and White 1995, Hulbert and Pratt 1998, Kurten and Anderson 1980 and McDonald and Naples 2007
Sister taxa: Dasypus (Cryptophractus), Dasypus (Dasypus), Dasypus (Hyperoambon), Dasypus argentinus, Dasypus hesternus, Dasypus laevisculptus, Dasypus longicaudatus, Dasypus moreni, Dasypus neogaeus, Dasypus patagonicus, Dasypus peba, Dasypus platensis, Dasypus proximus, Dasypus scalabrini, Dasypus tarijensis, Dasypus villosus
Type specimen: AMNH 23542, an osteoderm. Its type locality is Seminole Field, which is in a Pleistocene fluvial sandstone in Florida.
Ecology: semifossorial insectivore-frugivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (59: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia collections)
• Blancan of United States (6: Florida, Nebraska)
Total: 65 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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