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Propalaehoplophorus

Mammalia - Cingulata - Propalaehoplophoridae

Taxonomy

Propalaehoplophorus was named by Ameghino (1887).

It was assigned to Hoplophoridae by Ameghino (1889); to Glyptodontidae by Ameghino (1887), Lydekker (1894), Scott (1903), Brown (1912) and Carroll (1988); to Propalaehoplophorinae by Hoffstetter (1958) and McKenna and Bell (1997); and to Propalaehoplophoridae by Ameghino (1891), Ameghino (1894) and Fernicola (2008).

Species

P. australis, P. bilineatus, P. exilis, P. granatus, P. informis, P. laevatus, P. minus, P. scarriti, Propalaeohoplophorus informis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1887	Propalaehoplophorus Ameghino
1889	Propalaehoplophorus Ameghino
1891	Propalaehoplophorus Ameghino p. 40
1894	Propalaehoplophorus Ameghino p. 170
1894	Propalaehoplophorus Lydekker p. 45
1903	Propalaehoplophorus Scott
1912	Propalaeohoplophorus Brown
1958	Propalaehoplophorus Hoffstetter
1988	Propalaeohoplophorus Carroll
1997	Propalaehoplophorus McKenna and Bell p. 87
2008	Propalaehoplophorus Fernicola

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
subclass	Synapsida
—	Therapsida	()

Rank	Name	Author
infraorder	Cynodontia	()
—	Mammaliamorpha
—	Mammaliaformes
class	Mammalia
—	Cladotheria
—	Zatheria
subclass	Tribosphenida	()
subclass	Theria
—	Eutheria	()
—	Placentalia
—	Americatheria
—	Xenarthra	()
order	Cingulata	()
suborder	Glyptodontia	()
infraorder	Propalaehoplophoroinei	Ameghino 1891
superfamily	Propalaehoplophoroidea	Ameghino 1891
family	Propalaehoplophoridae	Ameghino 1891
genus	Propalaehoplophorus

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. †Propalaehoplophorus Ameghino 1887

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†Propalaehoplophorus australis Moreno 1882

†Propalaehoplophorus bilineatus Ameghino 1902

†Propalaehoplophorus exilis Ameghino 1889

†Propalaehoplophorus granatus Ameghino 1889

†Propalaehoplophorus informis Roth 1898

†Propalaehoplophorus laevatus Ameghino 1889

†Propalaehoplophorus minus Ameghino 1891

†Propalaehoplophorus scarriti Simpson 1932

†Propalaeohoplophorus informis Roth 1899

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Maximum body mass:

73.4 kgg

Minimum body mass:

73.4 kgg

Body mass estimate:

73.4 kg

Body mass source:

publishedg

Environment:

terrestrialsubc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

ground dwellingo

Diet:

omnivoreo

Reproduction:

viviparoussubc

Created:

2013-04-14 01:27:49

Modified:

2013-04-13 10:27:49

Source: g = genus, o = order, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum

References: Vizcaíno et al. 2010, Carroll 1988, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Laventan or 20.44000 to 11.00000 Ma

Collections (11 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Colhuehuapian	21.0 - 17.5	Argentina (Chubut)	Propalaehoplophorus indet. (176441)
Burdigalian	20.44 - 15.97	Chile (Aisén)	Propalaeohoplophorus sp. (71843)
Santacrucian	17.5 - 16.3	Argentina (Santa Cruz)	P. australis (27313 176601 176602 176603) P. incisivus, P. minus, P. sp. 1 (142533) P. sp. (176578 176622)
Friasian	16.3 - 15.5	Chile	P. sp. (176666)
Laventan	13.8 - 11.0	Bolivia (Tarija)	Glyptodontidae indet. (38071)