Stegotherium

Stegotherium Temporal range: Miocene

Skeleton
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Cingulata
Family:	Dasypodidae
Subfamily:	Dasypodinae
Tribe:	Stegotheriini†
Genus:	Stegotherium' † Ameghino, 1887
Species
S. notohippidensis González & Scillato-Yané, 2009 S. simplex Ameghino, 1887 S. tauberi González & Scillato-Yané, 2008^[1] S. tesselatum Ameghino, 1887 (type species) S. variegatum Ameghino, 1902
Synonyms
Scotaeops simplex Ameghino, 1887

Stegotherium is an extinct genus of armadillo in the family Dasypodidae.^[2]

Restoration of Protypotherium australe and Stegotherium tesselatum

Shell

References

↑ González Laureano Raúl, Scillato-Yané Gustavo Juan. Una nueva especie de Stegotherium Ameghino (Xenarthra, Dasypodidae, Stegotheriini) del Mioceno de la provincia de Santa Cruz (Argentina). Ameghiniana, 2008 Dic; 45(4): 641-648.
↑ González Ruiz, L. R. L.; Scillato-Yané, G. J. (2009). "A new Stegotheriini (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Dasypodidae) from the "Notohippidian" (early Miocene) of Patagonia, Argentina". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 252: 81. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2009/0252-0081.

Extant Cingulata (Armadillos) species by subfamily

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Infraclass Eutheria
Superorder Xenarthra

Chlamyphorinae

Calyptophractus	Greater fairy armadillo (C. retusus)

Chlamyphorus	Pink fairy armadillo (C. truncatus)

Dasypodinae

Dasypus	Southern long-nosed armadillo (D. hybridus) Greater long-nosed armadillo (D. kappleri) Nine-banded armadillo (D. novemcinctus) Hairy long-nosed armadillo (D. pilosus) Llanos long-nosed armadillo (D. sabanicola) Seven-banded armadillo (D. septemcinctus) Yepes's mulita (Dasypus yepesi)

Euphractinae

Chaetophractus	Andean hairy armadillo (C. nationi) Screaming hairy armadillo (C. vellerosus) Big hairy armadillo (C. villosus)

Euphractus	Six-banded armadillo (E. sexcinctus)

Zaedyus	Pichi (Z. pichiy)

Tolypeutinae

Cabassous	Northern naked-tailed armadillo (C. centralis) Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo (C. chacoensis) Greater naked-tailed armadillo (C. tatouay) Southern naked-tailed armadillo (C. unicinctus)

Priodontes	Giant armadillo (P. maximus)

Tolypeutes	Southern three-banded armadillo (T. matacus) Brazilian three-banded armadillo (T. tricinctus)

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