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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 | |
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| Eleutherocercus setifer tail armour at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Cingulata |
| Family: | Chlamyphoridae |
| Subfamily: | †Glyptodontinae |
| Genus: | †Eleutherocercus Koken, 1888 |
| Type species | |
| †Eleutherocercus setifer Koken, 1888 | |
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