Parapropalaehoplophorus

Taxobox
name = "Parapropalaehoplophorus"
fossil_range = Early Miocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
superordo = Xenarthra
ordo = Cingulata
familia = Glyptodontidae
genus= "Parapropalaehoplophorus"
species= "P. septentrionalis"
binomial = "Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis"
binomial_authority =Darin Croft et al., 2007

"Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis" was a relatively small (compared to, say, "Glyptodon") species of glyptodont, extinct relatives of the modern armadillo. The mammal, identified in 2007 from the fossilized remains of a specimen found in 2004, weighed approximately 200 pounds and had a shell covered by tiny circular bumps. It lumbered around northern Chile in an area now dominated by the Andes mountain range, some 18 million years ago. [ [http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/12/12/armadillo-fossil.html?dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000 Giant Armadillo Relative Found] Discovery News] [ [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071212103049.htm Primitive Early Relative Of Armadillos Helps Rewrite Evolutionary Family Tree] ScienceDaily.com]

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External links

* [http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=071212-glypto-armadillo-02.jpg&c
] at LiveScience.com