Eleutherocercus

Eleutherocercus was a genus of glyptodonts that lived during the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene in South America.^[1] Fossils of the genus have been found in the Huayquerian Ituzaingó Formation (E. paranensis) and the Montehermosan Monte Hermoso Formation (E. antiquus) in Argentina.^[2][3]

Eleutherocercus Temporal range: Late Miocene-Early Pliocene (Huayquerian-Montehermosan) ~9.0–4.0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Eleutherocercus setifer tail armour at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Cingulata
Family:	Chlamyphoridae
Subfamily:	†Glyptodontinae
Genus:	†Eleutherocercus Koken, 1888
Type species
†Eleutherocercus setifer Koken, 1888
Species
E. antiquus E. solidus Roberto, 1924
Synonyms
Eleutherocercus tucumanus Castellanos, 1927