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Dasypus bellus
| Dasypus bellus | |
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| Skull seen from two angles | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Cingulata |
| Family: | Dasypodidae |
| Genus: | Dasypus |
| Species: | †D. bellus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Dasypus bellus Simpson 1930
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| Synonyms | |
Dasypus bellus, the beautiful armadillo,[2] is an extinct armadillo species endemic to North America and South America from the Pleistocene, living from 1.8 mya—11,000 years ago, existing for approximately 1.789 million years.[3]
Slightly larger than its living relative, the nine-banded armadillo,[2] its fossils are known from Florida and records extend west to New Mexico and north to Iowa and Indiana.[4]
- ^ Simpson, George Gaylord (1929). "Pleistocene mammalian fauna of the Seminole Field, Pinellas County, Florida". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 56: 579–580. hdl:2246/1326.
- ^ a b Illinois State Museum
- ^ "The Paleobiology Database query for Dasypus bellus". Retrieved 2007-11-03.
- ^ "FaunMap query for Dasypus bellus". Archived from the original on 2011-08-20. Retrieved 2007-11-03.
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