Pampatherium
Sign in to savePampatherium (from the Pampas Plain, and Ancient Greek θηρίον (theríon), meaning "beast") is an extinct genus of xenarthran cingulates that lived in the Americas during the Pleistocene. Some species went extinct right at the Pleistocene-Holocene border.
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Pampatherium (from the Pampas Plain, and Ancient Greek θηρίον (theríon), meaning "beast") is an extinct genus of xenarthran cingulates that lived in the Americas during the Pleistocene. Some species went extinct right at the Pleistocene-Holocene border.
== Taxonomy == Pampatherium was one of the first fossil mammals reported from South America, with Peter Wilhelm Lund initially describing the genus as Chlamytherium in 1839 (then as Chlamydotherium in 1841). Florentino Ameghino erected the genus Pampatherium in 1875.
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