Ringueletia

Ringueletia; Temporal range: Miocene–Pleistocene PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Cingulata
Family:	Dasypodidae
Genus:	† Ringueletia
Species:	†R. simpsoni
Binomial name
	†Ringueletia simpsoni; Bordas, 1933

Last updated October 06, 2025

Ringueletia is an extinct genus of dasypodid cingulate that lived in South America during the Neogene and Quaternary periods.

Palaeoecology

Scatological evidence in the form of coprolites indicates that the burrows of Ringueletia simpsoni were frequently taken over by the didelphid Thylophorops chapadmalensis and the procyonid Cyonasua lutaria . It is possible that both of these carnivores scavenged on R. simpsoni carcasses within such burrows.^[1]

References

↑ Cenizo, Marcos; Soibelzon, Esteban; Magnussen Saffer, Mariano (16 November 2016). "Mammalian predator–prey relationships and reoccupation of burrows in the Pliocene of the Pampean Region (Argentina): new ichnological and taphonomic evidence". Historical Biology . 28 (8): 1026–1040. doi:10.1080/08912963.2015.1089868. ISSN 0891-2963 . Retrieved 29 September 2025– via Taylor and Francis Online.

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[1] Cenizo, Marcos; Soibelzon, Esteban; Magnussen Saffer, Mariano (16 November 2016). "Mammalian predator–prey relationships and reoccupation of burrows in the Pliocene of the Pampean Region (Argentina): new ichnological and taphonomic evidence". Historical Biology . 28 (8): 1026–1040. doi:10.1080/08912963.2015.1089868. ISSN 0891-2963 . Retrieved 29 September 2025– via Taylor and Francis Online.

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