Hoplophorus

Hoplophorus
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene (Ensenadan-Lujanian)
~0.126–0.011 Ma
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Shell fragment
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Cingulata
Family: Chlamyphoridae
Subfamily: †Glyptodontinae
Genus: †Hoplophorus
Lund, 1837
Species:
†H. euphractus
Binomial name
†Hoplophorus euphractus
Lund, 1837

Hoplophorus is an extinct genus of glyptodont, a subfamily of armadillos . The only confidently known species was H. euphractus, found in Pleistocene deposits in Brazil, though fossils possibly from another species are known from Bolivia.[1][2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :9 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Porpino, Kleberson de O.; Fernicola, Juan C.; Bergqvist, Lílian P. (2010-05-18). "Revisiting the intertropical Brazilian species Hoplophorus euphractus (Cingulata, Glyptodontoidea) and the phylogenetic affinities of Hoplophorus". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (3): 911–927. Bibcode:2010JVPal..30..911P. doi:10.1080/02724631003765735. hdl:11336/69074. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 83888299.