Lomaphorus
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Lomaphorus tail | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Cingulata |
Family: | Chlamyphoridae |
Subfamily: | †Glyptodontinae |
Genus: | †Lomaphorus Ameghino 1889 |
Lomaphorus is an extinct genus of glyptodont that lived during the Pleistocene in eastern Argentina.[1] Fossils of the genus were found in the .[2]
References[]
- ^ Zurita, A. E.; Carlini, A. A.; Scillato-Yané, G. J. (2009). "Paleobiogeography, biostratigraphy and systematics of the Hoplophorini (Xenarthra, Glyptodontoidea, Hoplophorinae) from the Ensenadan Stage (early Pleistocene to early-middle Pleistocene)". Quaternary International. 210: 82. Bibcode:2009QuInt.210...82Z. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2009.06.029.
- ^ Lomaphorus at Fossilworks.org
Further reading[]
- C. A. Luna and M. C. Prieto. 2013. Los fósiles de la Formación Lagunilla del Plata (Pleistoceno tardio) Provincia de Córdoba, Argentina. Ameghiniana 50(6):57-57
Categories:
- Prehistoric cingulates
- Pleistocene xenarthrans
- Prehistoric placental genera
- Pleistocene mammals of South America
- Lujanian
- Pleistocene Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Fossil taxa described in 1889
- Taxa named by Florentino Ameghino