Pampatherium mexicanum Edmund, 1996
Mexican pampathere
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Sonara, Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Bravo-Cuevas, Victor Manuel and Jiménez-Hidalgo, Eduardo. (2018). Advances on the Paleobiology of Late Pleistocene mammals from central and southern Mexico, pp. 277-313. In: Huard, Gaeten and Gareau, Jeannine (eds.). The Pleistocene: Geography, Geology, and Fauna. New York: Nova Science Publishers.
Edmund, A. G. (1996). A review of Pleistocene giant armadillos (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Pampatheriidae). In Palaeoecology and palaeoenvironments of Late Cenozoic mammals, Tributes to the career of C. S. (Rufus) Churcher, ed. K.M. . Stewart and K.L. Seymour, 300-321. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press.
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]
Mead, Jim I., S. L. Swift, R. S. White, H. G. McDonald, and A. Baez. (2007). Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) Glyptodont and Pampathere (Xenarthra, Cingulata) from Sonora, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 24(3): 439-449.
Tomas-Mosso, Azarael, Castañeda-Posadas, Carlos, Cruz, J. Alberto and Alarcón-Durán, Iván. (2024). Pleistocene record of mammals and pollen from Mexico (Las Tazas, Valsequillo, Puebla) and their paleoenvironmental interpretation. Palaeontologia Electronica 27(1): a15. https://doi.org/10.26879/1285