glyptodont

From Ancient Greek γλυπτός (gluptós) + -odont.

glyptodont (plural glyptodonts)

1. Any edentate of an extinct clade of South American armadillos which is identified either as family †Glyptodontidae or as subfamily †Glyptodontinae of family Chlamyphoridae.

• Not to be confused with glyptodon (any member of the genus Glyptodon) or glyptodontid (any member of Glyptodontidae, unambiguously regarded as a family).
• In 2016, a genomic analysis of the glyptodont genus Doedicurus placed it in a clade along with modern armadillos and alongside a sister clade comprising the subfamilies Chlamyphorinae and Tolypeutinae. Consequently, glyptodonts and all armadillos bar Dasypus were relocated to a new family, Chlamyphoridae, with glyptodonts being demoted to the subfamily Glyptodontinae. (See the cladogram at glyptodont on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
• Some authors continue to regard the clade as a family.

• xenarthran

• pseudoglyptodont

• glyptodon
• glyptodontid
• glyptodontoid

• Glyptodont on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Xenarthra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chlamyphoridae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Doedicurus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia