Beautiful Armadillo

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Beautiful Armadillo
Fossil range: late Pliocene to late Pleistocene
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Cingulata
Family: Dasypodidae
Genus: Dasypus
Species: †D. bellus
(Simpson, 1930)
Binomial name
†Dasypus bellus
Synonyms

†Tatu bellus Simpson, 1930

The whimsically named Beautiful Armadillo is an extinct armadillo species which lived in the United States from roughly 2 million years ago to 10,000 years ago.[1] Its fossils are known primarily from the southeastern United States, but records extend west to New Mexico and north to Iowa and Indiana.[2] Apart from its relatively large size (just over three feet in length), it was very similar to the Nine-banded Armadillo. It may have been able to roll up into a ball.

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Paleobiology Database query for Dasypus bellus. Retrieved on 2007-11-03.
  2. ^ FaunMap query for Dasypus bellus. Retrieved on 2007-11-03.

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