Dasypodidae
| Dasypodidae Temporal range: Early Eocene to present   | |
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| Dasypus novemcinctus | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Class: | Mammalia | 
| Order: | Cingulata Gray, 1821  | 
| Family: | Gray, 1821  | 
| Type genus | |
| Dasypus Linnaeus, 1758   | |
| Genera | |
 
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Dasypodidae, from Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús), meaning "hair", and πούς (poús), meaning "foot", is a family of mostly extinct genera of armadillos. One genus, Dasypus, is extant, with at least seven living species.
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 
- † Tribe Astegotheriini 
- † Genus Nanoastegotherium
 - † Genus Parastegosimpsonia
 - † Genus Riostegotherium
 - † Genus Astegotherium
 - † Genus Stegosimpsonia
 
 - Tribe Dasypodini 
- † Genus Anadasypus
 - Genus Dasypus
 - † Genus Pliodasypus
 - † Genus Propraopus
 
 
 - † Tribe Astegotheriini 
 
 
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] | 
References
- ^ 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" (PDF). Current Biology. 26 (4): R155 – R156. Bibcode:2016CBio...26.R155D. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.039. PMID 26906483.
 - ^ 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.
 - ^ 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.
 
