Chlamyphoridae Temporal range:
Middle Eocene to present
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Southern three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus) | |
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Illustration of a skeleton of Doedicurus clavicaudatus | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Cingulata |
Family: |
Chlamyphoridae Bonaparte, 1850 |
Type genus | |
Chlamyphorus
Harlan, 1825
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Subfamilies | |
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Chlamyphoridae is a family of cingulate mammals. While glyptodonts have traditionally been considered stem-group cingulates outside the group that contains modern armadillos, there had been speculation that the extant family Dasypodidae could be paraphyletic based on morphological evidence. [1] [2] [3] [4] In 2016, an analysis of Doedicurus mtDNA found it was, in fact, nested within the modern armadillos as the sister group of a clade consisting of Chlamyphorinae and Tolypeutinae. [5] [6] For this reason, all extant armadillos but Dasypus were relocated to a new family.
Below is a taxonomy of the extant species of armadillos in this family.
Family Chlamyphoridae
Chlamyphoridae, like Dasypodidae, is a basal clade within Cingulata, as shown below.
Cladogram [5] [7] [8] | |||||||||
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Chlamyphoridae Temporal range:
Middle Eocene to present
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Southern three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus) | |
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Illustration of a skeleton of Doedicurus clavicaudatus | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Cingulata |
Family: |
Chlamyphoridae Bonaparte, 1850 |
Type genus | |
Chlamyphorus
Harlan, 1825
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Subfamilies | |
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Chlamyphoridae is a family of cingulate mammals. While glyptodonts have traditionally been considered stem-group cingulates outside the group that contains modern armadillos, there had been speculation that the extant family Dasypodidae could be paraphyletic based on morphological evidence. [1] [2] [3] [4] In 2016, an analysis of Doedicurus mtDNA found it was, in fact, nested within the modern armadillos as the sister group of a clade consisting of Chlamyphorinae and Tolypeutinae. [5] [6] For this reason, all extant armadillos but Dasypus were relocated to a new family.
Below is a taxonomy of the extant species of armadillos in this family.
Family Chlamyphoridae
Chlamyphoridae, like Dasypodidae, is a basal clade within Cingulata, as shown below.
Cladogram [5] [7] [8] | |||||||||
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