Eleutherocercus

Eleutherocercus
Temporal range: Late Miocene-Early Pliocene (Huayquerian-Montehermosan)
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Eleutherocercus setifer tail armour at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Cingulata
Family: Chlamyphoridae
Subfamily: Glyptodontinae
Genus: Eleutherocercus
Koken, 1888
Type species
Eleutherocercus setifer
Koken, 1888
Species
  • E. antiquus
  • E. solidus Roberto, 1924
Synonyms
  • Eleutherocercus tucumanus Castellanos, 1927

Eleutherocercus was a genus of glyptodonts that lived during the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene in South America. Fossils of the genus have been found in the Huayquerian Ituzaingó Formation (E. paranensis) and the Montehermosan Monte Hermoso Formation (E. antiquus) in Argentina.

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