Propraopus sulcatus (Lund, 1842) (1838?)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Propraopus grandis Ameghino, 1881; Tatusia grandis Ameghino, 1881
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Holocene (Castro et al. 2013)
Distribution
Bolivia, Brazil & Venezuela
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Lund, P.W., 1842, Blik paa Brasiliens Dyreverden för Sidste Jordomvaeltning. Fjerde Afhandling: Forstsaettelse af Pattedyrene: Det Kongelige Danske VidenskabernesSelskabs Naturnvidenskabelige og Mathematiske Afhandlinger, 9, 137-208.
Other references:
Castro, Mariela C., L. Avilla, M. Freitas, and A. Carlini. (2013a). The armadillo Propraopus sulcatus (Mammalia: Xenarthra) from the late Quaternary of northern Brazil and a revised synonymy with Propraopus grandis. Quaternary International 317(13): 80-87. [Abstract]
M. C. Castro, A. A. Carlini, R. Sanchez and M. R. Sanchez-Villagra. 2014. A new Dasypodini armadillo (Xenarthra: Cingulata) from San Gregorio Formation, Pliocene of Venezuela: affinities and biogeographic interpretations. Naturwissenschafen 101(2):77-86
Castro, Mariela C., A.M. Ribeiro, J. Ferigolo, and M.C. Langer. (2013b). 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]
Faure M, Guérin C, and Parenti F (1999). The Holocene megafauna from the Toca do Serrote do Artur (São Raimundo Nonato archaeological area, Piauí, Brazil). Comptes Rendus de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris, Série II, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 329: 443-448.
Kerber, L., Oliveira, E., 2008, Fósseis de vertebrados da Formação Touro Passo (Pleistoceno Superior), Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil: atualização dos dados e novas contribuições: GAEA – Journal of Geoscience 4(2): 49-64.
Kerber, Leonardo, Pitana, Vanessa Gregis, Ribeiro, Ana Maria, Hsiou, Annie Schmaltz and Oliveira, Edison V. (2014). Late Pleistocene vertebrates from Touro Passo Creek (Touro Passo Formation), southern Brazil: a review. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 31(2): 248-259.
Lopes, Renato Pereira et al. (2021). The Santa Vitória Alloformation: an update on a Pleistocene fossil-rich unit in Southern Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Geology 51(1): e2020065.
R. Lydekker. 1894. Contributions to a knowledge of the Fossil Vertebrates of Argentina. Part II. 2. The extinct edentates of Argentina. Anales del Museo de La Plata. Paleontología Argentina 3:1-118
Oliveira, E.V., 1996, Mamiferos Xenarthra (Edentata) do Quaternário do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil: Ameghiniana, 31 (1), 65-75.
Oliveira, E.V., Pereira, J.C., 2009, Intertropical cingulates (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the Quaternary of southern Brazil: systematic and paleobiogeographical aspects: Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 12(3), 167-178.
Pitana, V.G., Ribeiro, A.M., 2007, Novos materiais de Propraopus Ameghino, 1881 (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) do Pleistoceno final, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil: GAEA – Journal of Geoscience, 3(2), 61-67.
Rincón A.D., White R.S., McDonald H.G. 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.
Rodriguez-Bualó, Santiago Martín et al. (2017). The Cingulata Dasypodidae (Mammalia, Xenarthra) in the Tarija Valley (Bolivia): a particular assemblage in South America. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 56(1): 35-43.
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]
E. Soibelzon, A. M. Miño-Boilini, A. E. Zurita and C. M. Krmpotic. 2010. Los Xenarhtra (Mammalia) del Ensenadense (Pleistoceno inferior a medio) de la Región Pampeana (Argentina). Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológica 27(3):449-469
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.
Solórzano, Andrés, Rincón, Ascanio D. and McDonald, H. Gregory. (2015). A New Mammal Assemblage from the Late Pleistocene El Breal de Orocual, Northeast of Venezuela, pp. 125-150. In: Harris, John M. (ed.). La Brea and Beyond: The Paleontology of Asphalt-Preserved Biotas. Los Angeles, California: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series No. 42. 174 pp.
Turvey, Samuel T. (2009). In the shadow of the megafauna: prehistoric mammal and bird extinctions across the Holocene, pp. 17-39. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. New York: Oxford University Press.
A. E. Zurita, A. A. Carlini, G. J. Scillato-Yané and E. P. Tonni. 2004. Mamíferos extintos del Cuaternario de la Provincia del Chaco (Argentina) y su relación con aquéllos del este de la región pampeana y de Chile. Revista geológica de Chile 31(1): 65-87.
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