Tolypeutinae

Tolypeutinae [1] Temporal range: Late Oligocene to present
Captive giant armadillo in Colombia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Cingulata
Family:	Chlamyphoridae
Subfamily:	Tolypeutinae Gray, 1865
Genera
Cabassous McMurtrie, 1831 † Kuntinaru Billet et al., 2011 Priodontes F. Cuvier, 1825 Tolypeutes Illiger, 1811 † Vetelia Ameghino, 1891

Tolypeutinae is a subfamily of armadillos in the family Chlamyphoridae, consisting of the giant, three-banded and naked-tailed armadillos. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Taxonomy

It contains the following genera: ^[5]

• Cabassous
• † Kuntinaru ^[6]
• Priodontes
• Tolypeutes
• † Vetelia ^[7]

Phylogeny

Tolypeutinae is the sister group of Chlamyphorinae, the fairy armadillos, as shown below.

Cladogram [4] [3] [8]

Cingulata Dasypodidae ... Chlamyphoridae Euphractinae Euphractus E. sexcinctus Zaedyus  Z. pichiy Chaetophractus C. villosus C. nationi C. vellerosus † Glyptodontinae Doedicurus ... ... Chlamyphorinae Chlamyphorus truncatus Calyptophractus retusus Tolypeutinae Priodontes P. maximus Tolypeutes T. tricinctus T. matacus Cabassous C. tatouay C. chacoensis C. centralis C. unicinctus

References

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2. Moller-Krull, M.; Delsuc, F.; Churakov, G.; Marker, C.; Superina, M.; Brosius, J.; Douzery, E. J. P.; Schmitz, J. (November 2007). "Retroposed Elements and Their Flanking Regions Resolve the Evolutionary History of Xenarthran Mammals (Armadillos, Anteaters, and Sloths)". Mol. Biol. Evol. 24 (11): 2573–2582. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msm201 . PMID   17884827.
3. Gibb, G. C.; Condamine, F. L.; Kuch, M.; Enk, J.; Moraes-Barros, N.; Superina, M.; Poinar, H. N.; Delsuc, F. (2015-11-09). "Shotgun Mitogenomics Provides a Reference Phylogenetic Framework and Timescale for Living Xenarthrans". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33 (3): 621–642. doi:10.1093/molbev/msv250. PMC   4760074 . PMID   26556496.
4. Delsuc, F.; Gibb, G. C.; Kuch, M.; Billet, G.; Hautier, L.; Southon, J.; Rouillard, J.-M.; Fernicola, J. C.; Vizcaíno, S. F.; MacPhee, R. D. E.; Poinar, H. N. (2016-02-22). "The phylogenetic affinities of the extinct glyptodonts". Current Biology. 26 (4): R155 –R156. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.039 . hdl: 11336/49579 . PMID   26906483.
5. "Tolypeutinae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 18 March 2011.
6. Guillaume Billet; Lionel Hautier; Christian de Muizon & Xavier Valentin (2011). "Oldest cingulate skulls provide congruence between morphological and molecular scenarios of armadillo evolution". Proceedings of the Royal Society. 278 (1719): 2791–2797. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2443. PMC   3145180 . PMID   21288952.
7. Barasoain, Daniel; González Ruiz, Laureano; Tomassini, Rodrigo; Zurita, Alfredo; Contreras, Víctor; Montalvo, Claudia (2021). "First phylogenetic analysis of the Miocene armadillo Vetelia reveals novel affinities with Tolypeutinae". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica . 66 (3). doi: 10.4202/app.00829.2020 . hdl: 11336/136645 .
8. Upham, Nathan S.; Esselstyn, Jacob A.; Jetz, Walter (2019). "Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution and conservation". PLOS Biol. 17 (12): e3000494. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000494 . PMC   6892540 . PMID   31800571.