glyptodont

== English == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek γλυπτός (gluptós) + -odont. === Noun === glyptodont (plural glyptodonts) Any edentate of an extinct clade of South American armadillos which is identified either as family †Glyptodontidae or as subfamily †Glyptodontinae of family Chlamyphoridae. ==== Usage notes ==== 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. ==== Hypernyms ==== xenarthran ==== Derived terms ==== pseudoglyptodont ==== Related terms ==== glyptodon glyptodontid glyptodontoid === References === Glyptodont on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Further reading === Xenarthra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Chlamyphoridae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Doedicurus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia