Chlamyphoridae Gallery

Six-banded or yellow armadillo, Euphractus sexcinctus

Six-banded or yellow armadillo, Euphractus sexcinctus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from The Naturalist's Pocket Magazine; or, Complete Cabinet of the Curiosities and Beauties of Nature (1798-1802) published by Harrison, London

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Neotropical realm (wildlife of Central and South America), published 1897

Neotropical realm - wildlife of the temperate zones (subtropics) of Central and South America: 1) Vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus); Venezuelan red howler (Alouatta seniculus); 3) Hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus); 4) Andean condor (Vultur gryphus); 5) Southern opossum (Didelphis marsupialis); 6) Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco); 7) Pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus); 8) Scrub Tanager (Tangara Vitriolina); 9) Spangled coquette (Lophornis stictolophus); 10) Lama; 11) Collared peccary (Pecari tajacu); 12) Agouti (Dasyprocta); 13) Brazilian guinea pig (Cavia aperea); 14) Giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla); 15) Greater rhea (Rhea americana); 16) Jagur (Panthera onca); 17) Bushmaster snake (Lachesis muta); 18) Tungara frog (Engystomops pustulosus); 19) Water Opossum (Chironectes minimus); 20) Nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus); 21) Spotted nothura (Nothura maculosa); 22) South American lungfish (Lepidosiren paradoxa). Lithograph after a drawing by Friedrich Specht (German animal painter, 1839 - 1909), published in 1897

Prehistoric glyptodonts graze on grassy plains. An Eremotherium is in the background

Prehistoric glyptodonts of the genus Doedicurus graze on grassy plains 25, 000 years ago in what is today South America. In the background is a giant ground sloth of the genus Eremotherium.
With a turtle-like shell five feet tall and weighing over two tons, Doedicurus was the largest known glyptodontid, an extinct family of heavily-armored herbivores related to modern armadillos. Doedicurus carried a large spiked tail that could have helped protect it from large predators and other Doedicurus.
Eremotherium was a Megatheriid that grew to 20 feet long and weighed up to three tons

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