Tolypeutinae

Tolypeutinae[1] Temporal range: Late Oligocene to present
Captive giant armadillo in Colombia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Cingulata
Family:	Chlamyphoridae
Subfamily:	Tolypeutinae
Genera
Cabassous McMurtrie, 1831 †Kuntinaru Billet et al., in press Priodontes F. Cuvier, 1825 Tolypeutes Illiger, 1811

Tolypeutinae is a subfamily of armadillo in the family Chlamyphoridae. The subfamily is the sister group of Chlamyphorinae, the fairy armadillos.^[2][3] It contains the following three extant genera:^[4]

• Cabassous
• †Kuntinaru^[5]
• Priodontes
• Tolypeutes

References

1. Gardner, A. (2005). Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 94–95. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
2. Moller-Krull, M.; Delsuc, F.; Churakov, G.; Marker, C.; Superina, M.; Brosius, J.; Douzery, E. J. P.; Schmitz, J. (November 2007). "Retroposed Elements and Their Flanking Regions Resolve the Evolutionary History of Xenarthran Mammals (Armadillos, Anteaters, and Sloths)". Mol. Biol. Evol 24 (11): 2573–2582. doi:10.1093/molbev/msm201. PMID 17884827.
3. Delsuc, F.; Gibb, G. C.; Kuch, M.; Billet, G.; Hautier, L.; Southon, J.; Rouillard, J.-M.; Fernicola, J. C.; Vizcaíno, S. F.; MacPhee, R. D. E.; Poinar, H. N. (2016-02-22). "The phylogenetic affinities of the extinct glyptodonts". Current Biology 26 (4): R155–R156. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.039.
4. "Tolypeutinae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
5. Guillaume Billet, Lionel Hautier, Christian de Muizon and Xavier Valentin (2011). "Oldest cingulate skulls provide congruence between morphological and molecular scenarios of armadillo evolution". Proceedings of the Royal Society 278. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2443.