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Pampatherium typum Gervais and Ameghino, 1880

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Chlamydotherium typum Gervais and Ameghino, 1880

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Argentina & Brazil

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Gervais, H. and Ameghino, F. (1880). Los mamíferos fósiles de America del Sur. Paris–Buenos Aires, F. Savy-Igon Hnos, 225 pp.

 

Other references:

Edmund, A. G. (1996). A review of Pleistocene giant armadillos. 300-321.

Kerber, L. and Oliveira, E. (2008). Fósseis de vertebrados da Formação ouro Passo (Pleistoceno Superior), Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil: atualização dos dados e novas contribuições: GAEA – Journal of Geoscience, 4(2), 49-64.

Lopes, Renato Pereira et al. (2021). The Santa Vitória Alloformation: an update on a Pleistocene fossil-rich unit in Southern Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Geology 51(1): e2020065.

R. Lydekker. 1894. Contributions to a knowledge of the Fossil Vertebrates of Argentina. Part II. 2. The extinct edentates of Argentina. Anales del Museo de La Plata. Paleontología Argentina 3:1-118.

Oliveira, E.V., 1996, Mamiferos Xenarthra (Edentata) do Quaternário do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil: Ameghiniana, 31 (1), 65-75.

A. D. Rincón, R. S. White, and H. G. McDonald. 2008. Late Pleistocene cingulates (Mammalia: Xenarthra) from Mene de Inciarte tar pits, Sierra de Perijá, western Venezuela. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(1):197-207.

Scillato-Yané G.J., Carlini A.A., Tonni E.P., Noriega J.I. 2005 Paleobiogeography of the late Pleistocene pampatheres of South America. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 20(1-2), 131-138.

Smith F.A., Lyons S.K., Ernest S.K.M., Jones K.E., Kaufman D.M., Dayan T., Marquet P.A., Brown J.H., Haskell J.P. 2003 Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84(12), 3403-3403.

E. Soibelzon, A. M. Miño-Boilini, A. E. Zurita and C. M. Krmpotic. 2010. Los Xenarhtra (Mammalia) del Ensenadense (Pleistoceno inferior a medio) de la Región Pampeana (Argentina). Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológica 27(3): 449-469.

Varela, Luciano, Tambusso, P. Sebastián, Patiño, Santiago J., Di Giacomo, Mariana and Fariña, Richard A. (2017). Potential Distribution of Fossil Xenarthrans in South America during the Late Pleistocene: co-Occurrence and Provincialism. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. [Abstract]

 

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