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| Eleutherocercus setifer tail armour at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Cingulata |
| Family: | Chlamyphoridae |
| Subfamily: | †Glyptodontinae |
| Genus: | †Eleutherocercus Koken, 1888 |
| Type species | |
| †Eleutherocercus setifer Koken, 1888
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Eleutherocercus was a genus of glyptodonts that lived during the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene in South America.[1] Fossils of the genus have been found in the Huayquerian Ituzaingó Formation (E. paranensis) and the Montehermosan Monte Hermoso Formation (E. antiquus) in Argentina.[2][3]
- ^ Zurita, A. E.; Oliveira, E. V.; Toriño, P.; Rodriguez-Bualó, S. M. N.; Scillato-Yané, G. J.; Luna, C.; Krapovickas, J. N. (2011). "On the taxonomic status of some Glyptodontidae (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Cingulata) from the Pleistocene of South America". Annales de Paléontologie. 97 (1–2): 63–83. Bibcode:2011AnPal..97...63Z. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2011.07.003. hdl:11336/43130.
- ^ Paraná, Pueblo Brugo to Diamante, Ituzaingó Fm. at Fossilworks.org
- ^ Farola at Fossilworks.org