Mammalia - Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Full reference: R. Lydekker. 1894. Contributions to a knowledge of the fossil vertebrates of Argentina. II. 2. The extinct edentates of Argentina. Anales del Museo de La Plata. Paleontología Argentina 3:1-118
Belongs to Dasypus according to R. Lydekker 1894
See also Esteban et al. 2003 and Rovereto 1914
Sister taxa: Dasypus (Cryptophractus), Dasypus (Dasypus), Dasypus (Hyperoambon), Dasypus argentinus, Dasypus bellus, Dasypus hesternus, Dasypus laevisculptus, Dasypus longicaudatus, Dasypus neogaeus, Dasypus patagonicus, Dasypus peba, Dasypus platensis, Dasypus proximus, Dasypus scalabrini, Dasypus tarijensis, Dasypus villosus
Ecology: semifossorial insectivore-frugivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Dasypus moreni in the database
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