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• "Glyptodon " grazed near water sources such as rivers and lakes.
• He decided on " Glyptodon ", which means " grooved or carved tooth ".
• At the end of the tail some " Glyptodon " species had spikes made out of keratin.
• It can be distinguished from other species by its lack of a spine on the D . glyptodon " ).
• The armour fragments were actually from " Glyptodon ", a huge armadillo-like creature as Darwin had initially thought.
• The name was originally coined by Sir Woodbine Parish, the man who had sent some " Glyptodon " fossils to Europe.
• This belief is furthered by the discovery of fractured dorsal armor, which implies that " Glyptodon " had been in physical conflict with other species.
• In the early 2000s, the presence of osteoderms on " Glyptodon "  s face, hind legs, and underside was confirmed in several species.
• Today, species such as the ground sloth and glyptodon are extinct, although a few " dwarf " species of sloth survived in remote Caribbean-island forests until a few thousand years ago.
• In 1760 Falkner discovered the skeleton of a big armadillo on the banks of Carcara襻 River, near the village of Santa Fe; many years later the fossil was identified as originating from a glyptodon.
• Material previously assigned to " Glyptodon " in northeast Brazil has been reassigned to " Glyptotherium ", restricting the distribution of " Glyptodon " to the southern region of Brazil.
• Material previously assigned to " Glyptodon " in northeast Brazil has been reassigned to " Glyptotherium ", restricting the distribution of " Glyptodon " to the southern region of Brazil.
• However, two osteoderms with characteristics similar to those of " Glyptodon " have been recently found in Sergipe state in the northeast, suggesting that both genera occurred in this region during the Pleistocene.
• The flower is also similar to those of other hammer orchids in that the labellum resembles a flightless female thynnid wasp, except that in this species the glabrous and not swollen as in " Drakaea glyptodon ".
• Owen was finding unexpected relationships from the fossils : the batch included the horse sized Scelidotherium which appeared to be closely allied to the anteater, a gigantic ground sloth, and an ox-sized armoured armadillo which he called Glyptodon.
• The bony shell of the armadillos and the extinct " Glyptodon " were very much like " Ankylosaurus "'armour and some modern armadillos curl up into a ball when threatened, making them unexposed due to their armour.
• At least three other genera ( " Dinornis ", a mastodon, and " Glyptodon " ) were planned, and Hawkins began to build at least the mastodon before the Crystal Palace Company cut his funding in 1855.
• The term is also used to describe the heavy armour of the armadillo and the extinct " Glyptodon ", and is occasionally used as an alternative to scales in describing snakes or certain fishes, such as sturgeons, shad, herring, and menhaden.
• The Columbian mammoth shared its habitat with other now-extinct Pleistocene mammals ( such as " Glyptodon ", " Smilodon ", ground sloths, " Camelops " and the Cuvieronius tropicus " at sites in Texas and New Mexico during the early Irvingtonian.
• In Uruguay and Rio Grande do Sul, the Lujanian ( Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene ) Sopas Formation has yielded remains of " L . molitor ", in addition to such other mammals as the extinct saber-toothed cat " Smilodon populator " and species of " Glyptodon ", " Macrauchenia ", and " Toxodon ".