Pampatherium

Pampatherium
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Cingulata
Family: †Pampatheriidae
Genus: †Pampatherium
Ameghino, 1875
Species
  • P. humboldtii Lund, 1839
  • P. mexicanum Edmund, 1996
  • P. pygmaeum Ameghino, 1891
  • P. typum Gervais & Ameghino, 1880
Synonyms
Genus synonymy
  • Chlamytherium Lund, 1839
  • Chlamydotherium Lund, 1841
Species synonymy
  • P. humboldtii:
    • Chlamytherium humboldtii Lund, 1839
    • Chlamydotherium humboldtii Lund, 1841

Pampatherium (from the Pampas Plain, and Ancient Greek θηρίον (theríon), meaning "beast") is an extinct genus of xenarthran cingulates that lived in the Americas during the Pleistocene. Some species went extinct right at the Pleistocene-Holocene border.

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