Hoplophorus euphractus Lund, 1838
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Asakura, Yumi and Oliveira, Edison V. (2021). Paleobiology of Hoplophorus euphractus Lund, 1839, a large cingulate from Brazil Intertropical Region. PalZ. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-021-00549-8 [Abstract]
Auler A.S., Piló L.B., Smart P.L., Wang X., Hoffmann D., Richards D.A., Edwards R.L., Neves W.A., Cheng H. 2006 U-series dating and taphonomy of Quaternary vertebrates from Brazilian caves. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 240(3-4), 508-522.
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
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.
Fernicola, J. C., Vizcaino, F, and de Iuliis, G. (2009). The Fossil Mammals collected by Charles Darwin in South America during his travels on board the HMS Beagle. Revista de la Asociatión Geológica Argentina 64(1): 147-159.
Kleberson de O. Porpinoa, Juan C. Fernicola & Lílian P. Bergqvist. (2010). Revisiting the intertropical Brazilian species Hoplophorus euphractus (Cingulata, Glyptodontoidea) and the phylogenetic affinities of Hoplophorus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(3): 911-927.
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]
da Silva, F.; Filgueiras, C. F. C.; Oliveira, E. V. & Barreto, A. M. F. 2010. Sobre a presença de Mylodonopsis ibseni e Hoplophorus euphractus em Afrânio, Pernambuco, Nordeste do Brasil. Estudos Geológicos 20(1): 61-67.
Smith F.A., Lyons S.K., Ernest S.K.M., Jones K.E., Kaufman D.M., Dayan T., Marquet P.A., Brown J.H., Haskell J.P. 2003 Body mass of late Quaternary mammals. Ecology 84(12), 3403-3403.
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.
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