| Glyptodontinae Temporal range: Early Miocene-Late Pleistocene | |
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| A dead Glyptodont | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Superorder: | Xenarthra |
| Order: | Cingulata |
| Family: | Chlamyphoridae |
| Subfamily: | †Glyptodontinae |
Glyptodontinae is an extinct subfamily of enoutmous heavily built armored Xenarthans related to armadillos, most members lived in South America. They developed in South America for about 20 million years and then spread to southern North America, after the continents became connected several million years ago. In 2016 an analysis Doedicurus Mitochondrial DNA (Also known as mtDNA / mDNA) found that it was, in fact, nested within the modern armadillos as the sister group of a clade consisting Chlamyphorinae and Tolypeutinae. Glyptodonts and all armadillos but Dasypus were relocated to a new family, Chlamyphoridae, and glyptodonts were demoted from the former family Glyptodontidae to a subfamily.
Evolution[]
The Gypltodonts first evolved during the Miocene in South America.