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Xenarthra
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Noun1.Xenarthra - armadillos; American anteaters; sloths
suborder Xenarthra
animal order - the order of animals
Edentata, order Edentata - order of mammals having few or no teeth including: New World anteaters; sloths; armadillos
Dasypodidae, family Dasypodidae - armadillos
Bradypodidae, family Bradypodidae - a family of edentates comprising the true sloths
family Megalonychidae, Megalonychidae - mammal family consisting of the two-toed sloths
family Megatheriidae, Megatheriidae - extinct ground sloths
family Myrmecophagidae, Myrmecophagidae - New World anteaters
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The only known preserved predator attack on a large armored xenarthran is that of two elliptical punctures in the roof of the skull of a young glyptodont from the Blancan 111 Ranch locality in Arizona made by the canines of a large machairodont felid (sabertoothed cat; Gillette and Ray, 1981).
Dire wolf, Canis dirus (mammalia; carnivora; canidae), from the late ... by Hodnett, John-Paul M.; Mead, Jim I.; Baez, A. / Southwestern Naturalist
Although relatively complex for a xenarthran tooth, the molariform dentition of Paramylodon consists only of simple lobes that show much variation in development, even within the same population (Stock 1925).
Diet of Pleistocene Paramylodon harlani (xenarthra: mylodontidae): ... by Ruez, Dennis R., Jr. / The Texas Journal of Science
 
 
 
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