Dasypodidae

Dasypodidae is a family of mostly extinct genera of armadillos. One genus, Dasypus, is extant, with at least seven living species.

Dasypodidae
Dasypus novemcinctus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Cingulata
Gray, 1821
Family: Dasypodidae
Gray, 1821
Genera
  • †Acantharodeia
  • †Amblytatus
  • †Anadasypus
  • †Archaeutatus
  • †Astegotherium
  • †Barrancatatus
  • †Chasicotatus
  • †Chorobates
  • †Coelutaetus
  • Dasypus
  • †Eocoleophorus
  • †Epipeltecoelus
  • †Eutatus
  • †Hemiutaetus
  • †Isutaetus
  • †Lumbreratherium
  • †Macrochorobates
  • †Mazzoniphractus
  • †Meteutatus
  • †Nanoastegotherium
  • †Parastegosimpsonia
  • †Pedrolypeutes
  • †Pliodasypus
  • †Prodasypus
  • †Proeutatus
  • †Propraopus
  • †Prostegotherium
  • †Pucatherium
  • †Punatherium
  • †Riostegotherium
  • †Stegotherium
  • †Stenotatus
  • †Utaetus
  • †Vetelia

Classification

Below is a taxonomy of armadillos in this family.

Family Dasypodidae

  • † Genus Acantharodeia
  • † Genus Amblytatus
  • † Genus Archaeutatus
  • † Genus Astegotherium
  • † Genus Astegotherium
  • † Genus Barrancatatus
  • † Genus Chasicotatus
  • † Genus Chorobates
  • † Genus Coelutaetus
  • † Genus Eocoleophorus
  • † Genus Epipeltecoelus
  • † Genus Eutatus
  • † Genus Hemiutaetus
  • † Genus Isutaetus
  • † Genus Lumbreratherium
  • † Genus Macrochorobates
  • † Genus Mazzoniphractus
  • † Genus Meteutatus
  • † Genus Pedrolypeutes
  • † Genus Prodasypus
  • † Genus Proeutatus
  • † Genus Prostegotherium
  • † Genus Pucatherium
  • † Genus Punatherium
  • † Genus Stegotherium
  • † Genus Stenotatus
  • † Genus Utaetus
  • † Genus Vetelia
  • Subfamily Dasypodinae
    • † Tribe Astegotheriini
      • † Genus Nanoastegotherium
      • † Genus Parastegosimpsonia
      • † Genus Riostegotherium
      • † Genus Stegosimpsonia
    • Tribe Dasypodini
      • † Genus Anadasypus
      • Genus Dasypus
      • † Genus Pliodasypus
      • † Genus Propraopus

Phylogeny

Dasypodidae, like Chlamyphoridae, is a basal clade within Cinglata, as shown below. D. kappleri is basal within Dasypodidae.

Cladogram of Cingulata[1][2][3]
 Cingulata 
Dasypodidae
Dasypus
D. (Hyperoambon)
 

D. kappleri

 
 
D. (Dasypus)
 
 

D. septemcinctus

 
 

D. hybridus

 
 
 
 
 

D. yepesi

 
 

D. sabanicola

 
 
 
 

D. novemcinctus

 
 

D. pilosus

 
 
 
 
 
 
 Chlamyphoridae 
 

Euphractinae

 
 
 

†Glyptodontinae

 
 
 

Chlamyphorinae

 
 

Tolypeutinae

 
 
 
 
 

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References

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  2. Upham, Nathan S.; Esselstyn, Jacob A.; Jetz, Walter (2019). "Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution and conservation". PLOS Biol. 17 (12): e3000494. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3000494. PMC 6892540. PMID 31800571.
  3. Gibb, Gillian C.; Condamine, Fabien L.; Kuch, Melanie; Enk, Jacob; Moraes-Barros, Nadia; Superina, Mariella; Poinar, Hendrik N.; Delsuc, Frédéric (2015). "Shotgun Mitogenomics Provides a Reference PhyloGenetic Framework and Timescale for Living Xenarthrans". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33 (3): 621–642. doi:10.1093/molbev/msv250. PMC 4760074. PMID 26556496.
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