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Cingulata
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Cingulata, part of the superorder Xenarthra, is an order of armored New World placental mammals. The armadillos, whose species are split between the families Dasypodidae and Chlamyphoridae, are the only surviving members of the order. Two groups of cingulates much larger than extant armadillos (maximum body mass of 45 kg (100 lb) in the case of the giant armadillo) existed until recently: pampatheriids, which reached weights of up to 200 kg (440 lb) and chlamyphorid glyptodonts, which attained masses of 2,000 kg (4,400 lb) or more.
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Cingulata is an order of mammals within the class Mammalia, phylum Chordata, and kingdom Animalia. It belongs to the superorder Xenarthra and the infraclass Placentalia. The taxon is governed by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Common names for the group include Gürteltiere, Páncélos vendégízületesek, Trenggiling, and 被甲目.
The order has existed since the Paleocene epoch, with a start time of about 59 million years ago. Records of the taxon are held by institutions such as USNM, YPM, SDNHM, UCMP, and UF. Occurrences have been documented in the United States, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, and South Africa. The taxon has 94,383 occurrence records and 35 records with 4 media items.
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Species
Cingulata
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassMammalia
- OrderCingulata
Die Gepanzerten Nebengelenktiere (Cingulata) bilden eine Ordnung der Nebengelenktiere (Xenarthra). Die einzigen heute lebenden Vertreter sind die Gürteltiere (Dasypoda) mit den beiden Familien der Dasypodidae und der Chlamyphoridae. Neben den Gürteltieren werden noch eine Reihe weiterer Gruppen zu den Gepanzerten Nebengelenktieren gezählt. Das Verbreitungsgebiet umfasst nahezu das gesamte Südamerika und die südlichen Teile Nordamerikas. Als Besonderheit der Gruppe hat sich ein äußerer knöcherner Panzer herausgebildet, der aus einzelnen Knochenplättchen besteht (Osteoderme) und sowohl den Kopf, den Rücken sowie bei den meisten Arten auch den Schwanz bedeckt. Die heute allgemein anerkannte wissenschaftliche Bezeichnung Cingulata wurde im Jahr 1811 geprägt. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Merkmale 2 Systematik 3 Forschungsgeschichte 3.1 Namensgebung 3.2 Systematikgeschichte 4 Literatur 5 Einzelnachweise 6 Weblinks Merkmale Wie der Name schon andeutet besitzen die Gepanzerten Nebengelenktiere als einzige bekannten Vertreter der Säugetiere einen knöchernen Hautpanzer. Im Gegensatz zu dem Schuppenkleid der Schuppentiere besteht der Knochenpanzer bei den Gepanzerten Nebengelenktieren aus einzelnen O
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 35
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Cingulata
- Collections
- USNM, YPM, SDNHM, UCMP, UF, QM
- Recorded in
- United States, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, South Africa
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Encyclopedic overview
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Cingulata, part of the superorder Xenarthra, is an order of armored New World placental mammals. The armadillos, whose species are split between the families Dasypodidae and Chlamyphoridae, are the only surviving members of the order. Two groups of cingulates much larger than extant armadillos (maximum body mass of 45 kg (100 lb) in the case of the giant armadillo) existed until recently: pampatheriids, which reached weights of up to 200 kg (440 lb) and chlamyphorid glyptodonts, which attained masses of 2,000 kg (4,400 lb) or more.
The cingulate order originated in South America during the Paleocene epoch about 66 to 56 million years ago, and due to the continent's former isolation remained confined to it during most of the Cenozoic. However, the formation of a land bridge allowed members of all three families to migrate to southern North America during the Pliocene or early Pleistocene as part of the Great American Interchange. After surviving for tens of millions of years, all of the pampatheriids and giant glyptodonts apparently died out during the Quaternary extinction event at the beginning of the Holocene, along with much of the rest of the regional megafauna, shortly after the colonization of the Americas by Paleo-Indians.
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