Dasypodidae

Dasypodidae is a family of mostly extinct genera of armadillos. One genus, Dasypus, is extant, with at least seven living species.

Dasypodidae
Temporal range: Early Eocene to present
Dasypus novemcinctus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Cingulata
Gray, 1821
Family: Dasypodidae
Gray, 1821
Type genus
Dasypus
Linnaeus, 1758
Genera

Classification

Below is a taxonomy of armadillos in this family.

Family Dasypodidae

  • † Genus Acantharodeia
  • † Genus Amblytatus
  • † Genus Archaeutatus
  • † Genus Astegotherium
  • † Genus Barrancatatus
  • † Genus Chasicotatus
  • † Genus Chorobates
  • † Genus Coelutaetus
  • † Genus Eocoleophorus
  • † Genus Epipeltecoelus
  • † Genus Eutatus
  • † Genus Hemiutaetus
  • † Genus Isutaetus
  • † Genus Lumbreratherium
  • † Genus Macrochorobates
  • † Genus Mazzoniphractus
  • † Genus Meteutatus
  • † Genus Pedrolypeutes
  • † Genus Prodasypus
  • † Genus Proeutatus
  • † Genus Prostegotherium
  • † Genus Pucatherium
  • † Genus Punatherium
  • † Genus Stegotherium
  • † Genus Stenotatus
  • † Genus Utaetus
  • Subfamily Dasypodinae

Phylogeny

Dasypodidae, like Chlamyphoridae, is a basal clade within Cinglata, as shown below. D. kappleri is basal within Dasypodidae.

Cladogram of Cingulata[1][2][3]
 Cingulata 
Dasypodidae
Dasypus
D. (Hyperoambon)

D. kappleri

D. (Dasypus)

D. septemcinctus

D. hybridus

D. yepesi

D. sabanicola

D. novemcinctus

D. pilosus

 Chlamyphoridae 

Euphractinae

Glyptodontinae

Chlamyphorinae

Tolypeutinae

References

  1. Delsuc, F.; Gibb, G. C.; Kuch, M.; Billet, G.; Hautier, L.; Southon, J.; Rouillard, J.-M.; Fernicola, J. C.; Vizcaíno, S. F.; MacPhee, R. D.E.; Poinar, H. N. (2016-02-22). "The phylogenetic affinities of the extinct glyptodonts". Current Biology. 26 (4): R155–R156. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.039. PMID 26906483.
  2. Upham, Nathan S.; Esselstyn, Jacob A.; Jetz, Walter (2019). "Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution and conservation". PLOS Biol. 17 (12): e3000494. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3000494. PMC 6892540. PMID 31800571.
  3. Gibb, Gillian C.; Condamine, Fabien L.; Kuch, Melanie; Enk, Jacob; Moraes-Barros, Nadia; Superina, Mariella; Poinar, Hendrik N.; Delsuc, Frédéric (2015). "Shotgun Mitogenomics Provides a Reference PhyloGenetic Framework and Timescale for Living Xenarthrans". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33 (3): 621–642. doi:10.1093/molbev/msv250. PMC 4760074. PMID 26556496.
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