Plaxhaplous | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Cingulata |
Family: | Chlamyphoridae |
Subfamily: | †Glyptodontinae |
Genus: | †Plaxhaplous Ameghino, 1884 |
Species: | †P. canaliculatus
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Binomial name | |
†Plaxhaplous canaliculatus Ameghino, 1884
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Plaxhaplous was a genus of glyptodont, an extinct relative of the modern armadillo. It lived in the Pleistocene epoch.[1] The type species is Plaxhaplous canaliculatus.[2] Plaxhaplous canaliculatus fossils were found in Argentina, near Luján in Buenos Aires Province.[2] Plaxhaplous fossils have also been found in Uruguay.[1] and in the Charana Formation of Bolivia.[3]