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Dasypus punctatus Lund, 1842

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Propraopus punctatus Lund, 1842

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Holocene

 

Distribution

Bolivia & Venezuela

 

Biology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

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References

Lemoine, Rhys Taylor, Buitenwerf, Robert, Faurby, Sören and Svenning, Jens-Christian. (2025). Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late-Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34(7): e70078. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70078 [Supporting Information: Data S1]

Mariela C. Castro, Ana Maria Ribeiro, Jorge Ferigolo and Max C. Langer. (2013). Redescription of Dasypus punctatus Lund, 1840 and considerations on the genus Propraopus Ameghino, 1881 (Xenarthra, Cingulata). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(2): 434-447. [Abstract]

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

 

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