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Pachyarmatherium brasiliense de O. Porpino et al. 2009

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

 

Distribution

Brazil

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

de O. Porpino, Kleberson; Fernicola, Juan C.; Bergqvist, Lílian P. (2009). A New Cingulate (Mammalia: Xenarthra), Pachyarmatherium brasiliense sp. nov., from the Late Pleistocene of Northeastern Brazil. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3): 881-893.

 

Other references:

Dantas, Mário A. T. (2022). Estimating the body mass of the Late Pleistocene megafauna from the South America Intertropical Region and a new regression to estimate the body mass of extinct xenarthrans. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2022.103900

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]

Lessa, Carlos Micael Bonfim et al. (2021). Isotopic paleoecology (δ13C, δ18O) of two megamammals assemblages from the late pleistocene of Brazilian intertropical region. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 112(1): 103576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103576 [Abstract]

Reyes-Céspedes, Andrés E., Carlini, Alfredo A. and Carrillo-Briceño, Jorge D. (2022). New record of Pachyarmatherium (Cingulata: Pachyarmatheriidae) from the Late Pleistocene in Venezuela / Nuevo registro de Pachyarmatherium (Cingulata: Pachyarmatheriidae) para el Pleistoceno tardío de Venezuela. Anartia 35: 7-13.

Scherer, Carolina Saldanha, Pales, Letícia Francielle Moreira, da Silva, Mariane Rosa Thomaz and da Silva, Samara de Almeida. (In Press, 2017). Chronological, taphonomical, and paleoenvironmental aspects of a Late Pleistocene mammalian fauna from Guanambi, Bahia, Brazil. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2017.07.016 [Abstract]

Soibelzon, E. et al. (In Press, 2015). The cingulates (Mammalia: Xenarthra) from the late Quaternary of northern Brazil: Fossil records, paleoclimates and displacements in America. Quaternary International. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.02.052.

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