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The most recognizable feature of Armadillosuchus is its body armor, which makes it one of the best armored notosuchians. Preserved elements show the presence of a rigid shield of hexagonal osteoderms just behind the head, followed by a series of mobile bands similar to those of armadillos that give the animal its name. While this armor is ...
This dermal armor is found prominently in many lizards. Some early amphibians have this armor, but it is lost in modern species with the exception a ventral plate, called the gastralia. [3] [4] Osteoderm demonstrates a slightly delayed development compared with the rest of the skeleton, as it does not appear until after hatching has occurred.
The armadillo osteoderm is believed to develop in subcutaneous dermal tissues. [2] These varied structures should be thought of as anatomical analogues, not homologues , and do not necessarily indicate monophyly .
Armour, although all used for the sole intent to ward off attackers, can be split into defensive and offensive armour. Examples of offensive armour are horns, hooves, antlers, claws and beaks, clubs and pincers, as developed in some mammals, birds, reptiles (including dinosaurs, such as the dromaeosaurid claw and the ceratopsian horn) and arthropods.
The word armadillo means ' little armored one ' in Spanish; [2] [3] it is derived from armadura ' armor ', with the diminutive suffix -illo attached. While the phrase little armored one would translate to armadito normally, the suffix -illo can be used in place of -ito when the diminutive is used in an approximative tense. [4]
Cingulata (from Latin cingulāta, meaning "the girdled ones"), [1] part of the superorder Xenarthra, is an order of armored New World placental mammals. Dasypodids and chlamyphorids, the armadillos, are the only surviving families in the order. [2]
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Its maximum length was approximately 1.2 metres (3.9 ft) long, twice the size of the nine-banded armadillo. The osteoderms of the shell and the limb bones of D. bellus are about two to two and a half times the extent of those of the living modern nine-banded armadillo D. novemcinctus. The small D. bellus overlapped in size with the D. novemcinctus.