Hoplophorus
| Hoplophorus Temporal range: Late Pleistocene (Ensenadan-Lujanian) ~ | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Cingulata |
| Family: | Chlamyphoridae |
| Subfamily: | †Glyptodontinae |
| Genus: | †Hoplophorus Lund, 1837 |
| Species: | †H. euphractus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Hoplophorus euphractus Lund, 1837 | |
Hoplophorus is an extinct genus of glyptodont, a subfamily of armadillos . The only confidently known species was H. euphractus, found in Pleistocene deposits in Brazil, though fossils possibly from another species are known from Bolivia.
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