Riostegotherium

Riostegotherium
Temporal range: Early-Late Eocene (Itaboraian-Divisaderan)
~53–41 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Cingulata
Family: Dasypodidae
Genus: Riostegotherium
Oliveira & Bergqvist, 1998
Species:
R. yanei
Binomial name
Riostegotherium yanei
Oliveira & Bergqvist, 1998

Riostegotherium was an extinct genus of armadillo from the Early to Late Eocene of South America. Fossils of the genus have been found in the Andesitas Huancache Formation of Argentina and in the Itaboraí Formation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[1]