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Eucinepeltus

Mammalia - Cingulata - Propalaehoplophoridae

Taxonomy
Encinepeltus was named by Ameghino (1891). Its type is Encinepeltus petesatus.

It was misspelled as Eucinepeltus by Ameghino (1894), Brown (1912), McKenna and Bell (1997); it was corrected as Eucinepeltus by Ameghino (1891), Scott (1903), Hoffstetter (1958), Fernicola (2008).

It was assigned to Glyptodontidae by Scott (1903), Brown (1912); to Propalaehoplophorinae by Hoffstetter (1958), McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Propalaehoplophoridae by Ameghino (1891), Ameghino (1894), Fernicola (2008).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1891Eucinepeltus Ameghino p. 40
1894Eucinepeltus Ameghino p. 171
1903Eucinepeltus Scott
1912Eucinepeltus Brown
1958Eucinepeltus Hoffstetter
1997Eucinepeltus McKenna and Bell p. 87
2008Eucinepeltus Fernicola

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Eugnathostomata
—Teleostomi(Bonaparte 1836)
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
RankNameAuthor
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Americatheria
—Xenarthra()
orderCingulata()
suborderGlyptodontia()
infraorderPropalaehoplophoroineiAmeghino 1891
superfamilyPropalaehoplophoroideaAmeghino 1891
familyPropalaehoplophoridaeAmeghino 1891
genusEucinepeltus()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Eucinepeltus Ameghino 1891
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†Encinepeltus petesatus Ameghino 1891
†Eucinepeltus crassus Scott 1903
†Eucinepeltus informis Roth 1899
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Life habit: ground dwellingo
Diet: omnivoreo
Reproduction: viviparoussubc
Created: 2005-08-26 13:20:40
Modified: 2005-08-26 15:20:40
Source: o = order, subc = subclass, subp = subphylum, p = phylum
References: Carroll 1988, Nowak 1999, Kiessling 2004, Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979

Age range: base of the Santacrucian to the top of the Friasian or 17.50000 to 15.50000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Santacrucian17.5 - 16.3Argentina (Santa Cruz) E. petesatus (176570) E. petestatus, E. complicatus (204358) E. sp. (87314 176622 176623)
Friasian16.3 - 15.5Chile (Aisén) E. petesatus (139845)