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Cingulata, 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. [1]
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]
1.2 Superorder Xenarthra. 1.2.1 Order Cingulata (armadillos) 1.2.2 Order Pilosa (sloths and anteaters) 2 Magnorder Boreoeutheria. Toggle Magnorder Boreoeutheria ...
Red: anteater, yellow: armadillo, blue: sloth, orange: both anteater and armadillo, green: both armadillo and sloth, purple: anteater, armadillo and sloth Xenarthra ( / z ɛ ˈ n ɑːr θ r ə / ; from Ancient Greek ξένος , xénos, "foreign, alien" + ἄρθρον , árthron, "joint") is a major clade of placental mammals native to the ...
Superorder Syncarida. Order Anaspidacea Calman, 1904; Order Bathynellacea Chappuis, 1915; Order †Palaeocaridacea; Superorder †Eocarida. Order †Eocaridacea; Order †Pygocephalomorpha; Superorder Peracarida. Order Amphipoda (Includes freshwater shrimp and sandhoppers) Order Cumacea (Hooded shrimp) Order Isopoda (Isopods - includes wood ...
Doedicurus (Ancient Greek δοῖδυξ "pestle" and oυρά "tail") is an extinct genus of glyptodont from South America containing one species, D. clavicaudatus.Glyptodonts are a member of the family Chlamyphoridae, which also includes some modern armadillo species, and they are classified in the superorder Xenarthra alongside sloths and anteaters.
Together with the armadillos, which are in the order Cingulata, pilosans are part of the larger superorder Xenarthra, a defining characteristic of which is the presence of xenarthrals (extra formations between lumbar vertebrae). In the past, Pilosa was regarded as a suborder of the order Xenarthra, while some more recent classifications regard ...
1.2.3 Superorder: Laurasiatheria. 1.2.3.1 Order: Chiroptera ... Nine-banded armadillo Pink fairy armadillo Six-banded armadillo Pichi Southern three-banded armadillo.