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Glyptodon
rare

Glyptodon

Glyptodon clavipes

Era: NeogeneDiet: HerbivorousPeriod: PlioceneSize: 2mWeight: 400kg

Glyptodon 'sculptured' and ὀδοντ-, ὀδούς (odont-, odoús) 'tooth') is a genus of glyptodont, an extinct group of large, herbivorous armadillos that lived from the Pliocene, around 3.2 million years ago, to the early Holocene, around 11,000 years ago, in South America