Barrancatatus maddeni Carlini et al. 2010 (armadillo)

Mammalia - Cingulata - Dasypodidae

Full reference: A. A. Carlini, M. R. Ciancio, and G. J. Scillato-Yane. 2010. Middle Eocene-Early Miocene Dasypodidae (Xenarthra) of southern South America: biostratigraphy and palaeoecology. The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia 106-129

Belongs to Barrancatatus according to A. A. Carlini et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Barrancatatus rigidus, Barrancatatus tinguiririquensis

Type specimen: MPEF PV 6299B, an osteoderm (several isolated osteoderms). Its type locality is La Cancha, which is in a Tinguirirican terrestrial horizon in the Sarmiento Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: ground dwelling insectivore

Distribution: found only at La Cancha

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