Tribe Dasypodini Bonaparte 1850 (armadillo)

Mammalia - Cingulata - Dasypodidae

Alternative spelling: Dasypodina

Full reference: C.-L. Bonaparte. 1850. Conspectus Systematis Mastozoologiae. Editio Altera Reformata [Survey of the system of mammals. Second revised edition]. E. J. Brill, Leyden 1

Parent taxon: Dasypodinae according to A. E. Zurita et al. 2004

See also Bonaparte 1850, McKenna and Bell 1997 and Rincón et al. 2008

Sister taxon: Astegotheriini

Subtaxa: Anadasypus Dasypus Plesiodasypus Pliodasypus Propraopus

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Ecology: ground dwelling insectivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Argentina (13 collections), Bolivia (5), Brazil (21), Colombia (1), Ecuador (2), Guatemala (2), Panama (1), Peru (1), United States (62: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia), Uruguay (5), Venezuela (3)

• Blancan of United States (6: Florida, Nebraska)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Venezuela (1)

• Pliocene of Venezuela (1)

• Montehermosan of Argentina (1)

• Miocene of Argentina (2), Brazil (1), Colombia (6), Ecuador (1), Peru (1)

Total: 136 collections including 154 occurrences

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