Metopotoxus
| Metopotoxus Temporal range: Santacrucian
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| YMP PU 15612, the type specimen (a skull) of M. anceps, from various angles | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Cingulata |
| Family: | Chlamyphoridae |
| Subfamily: | †Glyptodontinae |
| Genus: | †Metopotoxus Ameghino, 1898 |
| Type species | |
| †Metopotoxus laevatus (Ameghino, 1889)
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| Species | |
Metopotoxus is a dubious extinct genus of glyptodont known from the Early Miocene (Santacrucian) of Patagonia, Argentina. Two species of Metopotoxus have been described, M. laevatus and M. anceps, both from the Santa Cruz Formation.