Boreostemma
| Boreostemma Temporal range: Mid Miocene-Early Pliocene (Laventan-Montehermosan) ~ | |
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| Tail of Boreostemma from the Honda Group | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Cingulata |
| Family: | Chlamyphoridae |
| Subfamily: | †Glyptodontinae |
| Genus: | †Boreostemma Carlini et al. 2008 |
| Type species | |
| †Boreostemma pliocena Carlini et al. 2008 | |
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Boreostemma is an extinct genus of glyptodonts from northern South America. Fossils assigned to the genus were first described as belonging to Asterostemma from southern South America, but have been placed in the new genus Boreostemma by Carlini et al. in 2008. The type species is B. pliocena. Fossils of Boreostemma have been found in the Honda Group of Colombia, in Peru and Venezuela.
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