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Glyptotherium (from Greek for 'grooved or carved beast') is a genus of glyptodont (an extinct group of large, herbivorous armadillos) that lived from the Early Pliocene, about 4.9 million years ago, to the Early Holocene, around 7,000 years ago, in the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Venezuela, and Brazil. The genus was first described in 1903 by American paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn with the type species being, G. texanum, based on fossils that had been found in the Pliocene Blancan Beds in Llano Estacado, Texas, USA. The genus has since been discovered in many more fossil sites. Another species, G. cylindricum, was named in 1912 by fossil hunter Barnum Brown on the basis of a partial carapace, teeth, and several additional fossils tha

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  • El gliptoteri (Glyptotherium) és un gènere extint de gliptodontí. Pertanyia a un grup de mamífers relacionats amb els armadillos d'avui en dia. Se'l considera un representant de la megafauna nord-americana, gran part de la qual s'extingí en temps prehistòrics. El gliptoteri podria haver desaparegut a causa del canvi climàtic o la interferència per part dels humans. Les últimes espècies de gliptoteri s'extinguiren fa uns 12.000 anys. (ca)
  • Glyptotherium (griechisch „Geschnitztes Tier“) ist eine Gattung ausgestorbener Säugetiere aus der Verwandtschaft der Gürteltiere. Es gehört wie die bekannte, ähnliche Gattung Glyptodon aus Südamerika in die Gruppe der Glyptodontidae und wird daher zuweilen auch als „nordamerikanisches Glyptodon“ bezeichnet. (de)
  • Glyptotherium (from Greek for 'grooved or carved beast') is a genus of glyptodont (an extinct group of large, herbivorous armadillos) that lived from the Early Pliocene, about 4.9 million years ago, to the Early Holocene, around 7,000 years ago, in the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Venezuela, and Brazil. The genus was first described in 1903 by American paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn with the type species being, G. texanum, based on fossils that had been found in the Pliocene Blancan Beds in Llano Estacado, Texas, USA. The genus has since been discovered in many more fossil sites. Another species, G. cylindricum, was named in 1912 by fossil hunter Barnum Brown on the basis of a partial carapace, teeth, and several additional fossils that had been unearthed from the Pleistocene deposits in Jalisco, Mexico. Glyptodonts were typically large, graviportal, herbivorous armadillos with armored carapaces that were made of hundreds of interconnected osteoderms, armor covering the tails, armored skull roofs, tall skulls, hypsodont teeth, pelves fused to the carapace, an amalgamate vertebral column, short limbs, and small digits. Glyptotherium reached up to 2 meters (6.56 feet) long and 400 kilograms (880 pounds) in weight, making it one of the largest glyptodonts but not as large as its close relative Glyptodon or Doedicurus, the largest known glyptodont. Glyptotherium is morphologically and phylogenetically most similar to Glyptodon, but Glyptotherium differs in several anatomical aspects including size, a shorter carapace, a relatively longer tail, and a slender zygoma, or cheek bone. Glyptodonts evolved first during the Eocene, but greatly diversified in the Miocene and Pliocene, but their diversity diminished into the Pleistocene. Glyptotherium is considered an example of North American megafauna, of which most have become extinct, and may have been wiped out by changing climate or human interference. Glyptotherium was primarily a grazer, but also had a mixed diet of fruits and other plants, that lived on open grasslands. The armor could protect the animal from predators, of which many coexisted with Glyptotherium during its existence, including the "saber-tooth cat" Smilodon, the "bone-crushing dog" Borophagus, and the giant bear Arctotherium. (en)
  • Glyptotherium est un genre éteint de mammifères xénarthres proche du tatou. Ces animaux faisaient partie de la mégafaune nord-américaine, dont beaucoup d’espèces ont aujourd’hui disparu. Glyptotherium a dû s’éteindre à cause d’un changement climatique ou de la présence de l’Homme. L'espèce Glyptotherium texanum s'est éteinte il y a environ 12 000 ans. (fr)
  • Glyptotherium es un género extinto de glyptodonte, un grupo de mamíferos parientes del armadillo. Su género es considerado un ejemplo de megafauna norteamericana, la mayor parte de la cual se extinguió en el evento de extinción del Cuaternario.​ Glyptotherium probablemente desapareció debido a la caza excesiva.​​ Las últimas especies de Glyptotherium se extinguieron aproximadamente hace 12,000 años coincidiendo con la expansión del ser humano.​ (es)
  • Il Glyptotherium texanum è un animale estinto imparentato con l'odierno armadillo.Come quest'ultimo, possedeva una corazza, che tuttavia mancava di fasce che le conferissero mobilità, ed era quindi simile visivamente al carapace delle tartarughe, dal quale si differenziava perché non era fatta da un unico pezzo, ma da migliaia di scaglie esagonali. Il Glyptotherium misurava un paio di metri di lunghezza e arrivava a pesare una tonnellata. Visse negli attuali Florida, Carolina del Sud e Texas. Si ritiene che si sia estinto a causa della predazione da parte dell'uomo e degli improvvisi mutamenti climatici: tuttavia, non si hanno prove certe che gli uomini preistorici si cibassero di questi animali. (it)
  • Glyptotherium is uitgestorven gordeldierachtige uit de familie Glyptodontidae. Dit geslacht leefde tijdens het Plioceen en Pleistoceen. (nl)
  • Глиптотерии (лат. Glyptotherium) — род ископаемых броненосцев, обитавших в плиоцене — плейстоцене (5,3—0,012 млн лет назад) от Северной до Южной Америки. Достигали длины 1,8 м и массы — до тонны. Как и современные броненосцы, обладали толстым панцирем, сходным с черепашьим, но образованным из сотен небольших шестигранных чешуек. (ru)
  • 雕獸(學名:Glyptotherium)是一種已滅絕的雕齒獸亞科哺乳動物,生存在中更新世至更新世晚期的北美洲。牠們可能因氣候變化或人為捕獵而滅絕。 (zh)
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  • Osborn, 1903 (en)
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  • Early Pliocene-Early Holocene (en)
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  • G. texanum (en)
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  • * G. cylindricum (en)
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  • Other Species (en)
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  • Boreostracon floridanus (Simpson, 1929) (en)
  • Brachyostracon cylindricum (Brown, 1912) (en)
  • Brachyostracon mexicanum (en)
  • Glyptodon fredericensis (en)
  • Glyptodon nathorsti (Felix and Lenk, 1875) (en)
  • Glyptodon petaliferus (Cope, 1888) (en)
  • Glyptodon rivipacis (Hay, 1923) (en)
  • Glyptotherium arizonae (Gidley, 1926) (en)
  • Glyptotherium floridanum (Simpson, 1929) (en)
  • Glyptotherium mexicanum (en)
  • Xenoglyptodon fredericensis (Meade, 1953) (en)
  • Glyptodon mexicanum (Cuatáparo and Ramírez, 1875) (en)
  • * Boreostracon Simpson, 1929 * Brachyostracon Brown, 1912 * Xenoglyptodon Meade, 1953 (en)
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  • Glyptotherium (en)
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  • Glyptotherium texanum (en)
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  • Osborn, 1903 (en)
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  • El gliptoteri (Glyptotherium) és un gènere extint de gliptodontí. Pertanyia a un grup de mamífers relacionats amb els armadillos d'avui en dia. Se'l considera un representant de la megafauna nord-americana, gran part de la qual s'extingí en temps prehistòrics. El gliptoteri podria haver desaparegut a causa del canvi climàtic o la interferència per part dels humans. Les últimes espècies de gliptoteri s'extinguiren fa uns 12.000 anys. (ca)
  • Glyptotherium (griechisch „Geschnitztes Tier“) ist eine Gattung ausgestorbener Säugetiere aus der Verwandtschaft der Gürteltiere. Es gehört wie die bekannte, ähnliche Gattung Glyptodon aus Südamerika in die Gruppe der Glyptodontidae und wird daher zuweilen auch als „nordamerikanisches Glyptodon“ bezeichnet. (de)
  • Glyptotherium est un genre éteint de mammifères xénarthres proche du tatou. Ces animaux faisaient partie de la mégafaune nord-américaine, dont beaucoup d’espèces ont aujourd’hui disparu. Glyptotherium a dû s’éteindre à cause d’un changement climatique ou de la présence de l’Homme. L'espèce Glyptotherium texanum s'est éteinte il y a environ 12 000 ans. (fr)
  • Glyptotherium es un género extinto de glyptodonte, un grupo de mamíferos parientes del armadillo. Su género es considerado un ejemplo de megafauna norteamericana, la mayor parte de la cual se extinguió en el evento de extinción del Cuaternario.​ Glyptotherium probablemente desapareció debido a la caza excesiva.​​ Las últimas especies de Glyptotherium se extinguieron aproximadamente hace 12,000 años coincidiendo con la expansión del ser humano.​ (es)
  • Glyptotherium is uitgestorven gordeldierachtige uit de familie Glyptodontidae. Dit geslacht leefde tijdens het Plioceen en Pleistoceen. (nl)
  • Глиптотерии (лат. Glyptotherium) — род ископаемых броненосцев, обитавших в плиоцене — плейстоцене (5,3—0,012 млн лет назад) от Северной до Южной Америки. Достигали длины 1,8 м и массы — до тонны. Как и современные броненосцы, обладали толстым панцирем, сходным с черепашьим, но образованным из сотен небольших шестигранных чешуек. (ru)
  • 雕獸(學名:Glyptotherium)是一種已滅絕的雕齒獸亞科哺乳動物,生存在中更新世至更新世晚期的北美洲。牠們可能因氣候變化或人為捕獵而滅絕。 (zh)
  • Glyptotherium (from Greek for 'grooved or carved beast') is a genus of glyptodont (an extinct group of large, herbivorous armadillos) that lived from the Early Pliocene, about 4.9 million years ago, to the Early Holocene, around 7,000 years ago, in the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Venezuela, and Brazil. The genus was first described in 1903 by American paleontologist Henry Fairfield Osborn with the type species being, G. texanum, based on fossils that had been found in the Pliocene Blancan Beds in Llano Estacado, Texas, USA. The genus has since been discovered in many more fossil sites. Another species, G. cylindricum, was named in 1912 by fossil hunter Barnum Brown on the basis of a partial carapace, teeth, and several additional fossils tha (en)
  • Il Glyptotherium texanum è un animale estinto imparentato con l'odierno armadillo.Come quest'ultimo, possedeva una corazza, che tuttavia mancava di fasce che le conferissero mobilità, ed era quindi simile visivamente al carapace delle tartarughe, dal quale si differenziava perché non era fatta da un unico pezzo, ma da migliaia di scaglie esagonali. Il Glyptotherium misurava un paio di metri di lunghezza e arrivava a pesare una tonnellata. Visse negli attuali Florida, Carolina del Sud e Texas. (it)
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  • Gliptoteri (ca)
  • Glyptotherium (de)
  • Glyptotherium (en)
  • Glyptotherium (es)
  • Glyptotherium (fr)
  • Glyptotherium (it)
  • Glyptotherium (nl)
  • Глиптотерии (ru)
  • 雕獸屬 (zh)
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