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 Sadypus according to A. A. Carlini et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Meteutatus anthinus, Meteutatus concavus, Meteutatus lagenaformis, Meteutatus lucidus, Meteutatus percarinatus, Sadypus confluens, Sadypus tortuosus, Sadypus nepotulus, Sadypus ascendens
Type specimen: MPEF PV 6301C, 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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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