Mammalia - Cingulata - Propalaehoplophoridae
Alternative spelling: Encinepeltus
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1891. Nuevos restos de mamíferos fósiles descubiertos por Carlos Ameghino en el Eoceno inferior de la Patagonia austral. – Especies nuevas, adiciones y correcciones [New remains of fossil mammals discovered by Carlos Ameghino in the lower Eocene of southern Patagonia. – New species, additions, and corrections]. Revista Argentina de Historia Natural 1:289-328
Parent taxon: Propalaehoplophoridae according to J. C. Fernicola 2008
See also Ameghino 1891, Ameghino 1894, Brown 1912 and McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Asterostemma, Cochlops, Metopotoxus, Propalaehoplophorus
Subtaxa: Encinepeltus petesatus Eucinepeltus complicatus Eucinepeltus crassus Eucinepeltus informis
Type: Encinepeltus petesatus
Ecology: ground dwelling omnivore
Distribution:
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