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	Glyptodon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Glyptodon (Greek for "grooved or carved tooth") was a relative of the armadillo that lived during the Pleistocene Epoch.
		Flatter than a Volkswagen Beetle, but about the same general size and weight, the glyptodon (or glyptodont) is believed to have been a herbivore, grazing on grasses and other plants found near rivers and small bodies of water.
		With this protection, they were armored like turtles, but unlike most turtles, could not withdraw their heads, so they developed a bony cap on the top of their skull.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glyptodon (340 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Glyptodont
		Glyptodonts were superficially similar to armadillos, but much larger, weighing almost as much as a car and covered in a thick rigid armour.
		Glyptodonts originated in South America and spread northwards as far as southern North America.
		It is thought that glyptodonts were slow moving creatures that relied heavily on their thick armour to defend themselves against predators.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/3005.shtml (262 words)

	Fossils (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Glyptodont (Glyptotherium floridanum) - The glyptodont, one of the strangest creatures of the Pleistocene, wore an impressive suit of armor.
		The glyptodont was adapted to life in the marshy areas of its Pleistocene world.
		Glyptodont Family Tree - The glyptodont belonged to a group known as edentates, which includes the present-day armadillos and anteaters.
	www.richland2.org /rce/Websites/fossils.htm (2575 words)

	Glyptodon - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Glyptodon ("grooved or carved tooth") was a relative of the armadillo that lived deuring the Pleistocene Epoch.
		Flatter than a Volkswagen Beetle, but about the same general size and weight, the glyptodon (or glyptodont) is belived to have been a herbivore, grazing on grasses and other plants found near rivers and small bodies of water.
		The lower jaws were very deep and helped support massive chewing muscles to help chew the coarse fiberus plants that can be found along river and lake banks.
	www.iridis.com /Glyptodon (367 words)

	Cryptozoology - Glossary
		Some researchers believe the Minhocão to be surviving glyptodont -- large armadillo-like animals believed to have gone extinct in the Pleistocene.
		Researchers say that the glyptodont would be capable of digging the mysterious trenches and burrowing underground, it also had and armored shell over it?s back.
		What is normally not mentioned about the glyptodont is that it was not a borrowing animal and it was probably not capable of doing so.
	www.cryptozoology.com /glossary/glossary_topic.php?id=13 (657 words)

	The Rolex Awards: preserving prehistoric animal footprints, T. Manera
		During a childhood visit to Pehuen Co, Manera found fossils on the beach that her mother explained belonged to a glyptodont, and 11-year-old Teresa decided that one day she would study these extinct, giant armadillos.
		She went on to become a researcher and teacher at the National University of the South in nearby Bahía Blanca, specialising early in her professional career in the structure of dinosaur eggs.
		A skeleton of glyptodont can be seen in the Department of Palaeontology and Geology at the National University of the South, where the Laureate teaches.
	www.rolexawards.com /laureates/laureate-76-manera.html (1527 words)

	More MPC page 7
		According to Gillette and Ray (Glyptodonts of North America, Smithsonian Institution, 1981), Boreostracon Simpson, 1929, is a junior synonym of the genus Glyptotherium Osborn, 1903 (Family Glyptodontidae, Subfamily Glyptodontinae).
		The various glyptodont species vary in numerous respects, such as the extent to which the armor plates are fused.
		This is probably an artistic convention - although the glyptodonts survived until perhaps 11,000 years ago, so far as I know no ear specimens have survived.
	www.rubberdinosaurs.com /mpc7.htm (1911 words)

	Outdoor News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Paul Sealey, a museum volunteer, found a near-perfect glyptodont fossil in April near La Union, N.M., which is south of Las Cruces, N.M. Morgan and paleontologists from the Bureau of Land Management spent the day Friday unearthing its shell and encasing it in plaster.
		Glyptodonts migrated north from South America after volcanic action filled in the gap now known as Panama between the continents, Morgan said.
		The glyptodont, named for its globe-shaped teeth, couldn't withdraw its head like a turtle, so it developed a bony cap on the top of its skull, Morgan said.
	www.savvycenter.com /explorer/news/glypto.htm (445 words)

	GoSanAngelo: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Imagine the excitement of pamphothere races at festivals - your child certainly could not carry it to the starting line and the race track fencing would probably need to be made of oil well casing.
		One Texas species, Gidley's glyptodont, weighed a ton and was 9 feet long.
		You wouldn't even try for glyptodont races today - who's got a whole day to watch a herd of them lumber a hundred yards.
	web.gosanangelo.com /archive/03/july/20/20030720010.html (715 words)

	Desert Diary, 10 Sep 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		But others, like the 6-foot long relative of the armadillo known as a glyptodont, are unknown from the continent until the late Pliocene.
		Their absence becomes more mystifying when we learn that earlier, related fossils are common in South America.
		Glyptodont scute from the western breaks of the Rio Grande near El Paso.
	museum.utep.edu /archive/geology/DDsouthamerican.htm (326 words)

	South America Smilodon Macrauchenia Glyptodon Megatherium Doedicurus Dire Wolf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		There are two general kinds of Glyptodont: the ones with clubs on their tails and the ones without clubs.
		The ancestors of Dire Wolves are though to have south with the land bridge evolved in South America then migrated north again.
		Glyptodonts proper were found throughout South America from the Tertiary period through the Pleistocene.
	www.dinosaurcollector.150m.com /smilodon.html (757 words)

	The Glyptodonts
		The Glyptodonts first appeared during the Early Miocene Epoch (22.5 to 5 million years ago).
		The Glyptodonts did not have teeth in the front of their mouths, but they did have powerful grinding teeth at the back.
		This characteristic is referred to as "edentate," and the Glyptodonts share this characteristic with modern armadillos and with the sloths.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/paleontology/79001 (542 words)

	Vertebrate
		A Glyptodont resembled a huge turtle but was more closely related to the giant armadillo...
		They had bony helmets on their furry heads; their bodies were covered by huge carapaces made of bony hexagons bound together by collagen; the bases of their tails were ringed with bone, and terminated in stiff bony sheaths.
		This is one of the hexagonal scutes that made up their outer "shell".
	www.indiana9fossils.com /Vertebrates/Glyptodont.htm (66 words)

	GLYPTODONT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		"GLYPTODONT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Glyptodon.
		Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).
		Words rhyming with "GLYPTODONT" (pronounced '*Glyp"todont**'): Acrodont, Coelodont, Conodont, Coryphodont, Cyprinodont, Homodont, labyrinthodont, Macrodont, Mesodont, Microdont, Monophyodont, Octodont, Oreodont, Phocodont, Pycnodont, Rachiodont, Rhachiodont, Rhizodont, Sigmodont, Squalodont, Zeuglodont.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /Gl/Glyptodont.html (247 words)

	Graham County Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On the left is a lower horse leg (cannon) bone eroding out of diatomaceous earth, and on the right is a cast of a lower horse leg set on a slab of real rock containing hoof prints of a small, three-toed horse.
		5 Close-up of a nearly complete glyptodont shell (Glyptotherium texanum).
		6 Close-up of fossil gopher tortoise (Gopherus sp.) and mural showing glyptodonts and horses in foreground, and camels and mastodonts in the background.
	www.blm.gov /heritage/cratrisk/Proj2002/AZ/ACECfossil/Graham_Mus3 (75 words)

	Knight Online Global Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Glyptodonts are huge herbivores that live throughout the Adonis continent.
		They are very passive, but they’ll retaliate if you attack them first.
		If you attack one Glyptodont, the others around it might start attacking you so you must be very careful.
	www.knightonlineworld.com /chest/monster.asp (560 words)

	Glyptodont
		This is the definition of the term Glyptodont
		Glyptodont (n.) One of a family (Glyptodontidae) of extinct South American edentates, of which Glyptodon is the type.
		For people who have trouble spelling, this is the defintion of the term Glyptodont
	linkspider.serversystems.net /dictionary/lookup/glyptodont (77 words)

	Re: Fossil Armadillo "info wanted"
		The new species of small glyptodont you refer to is pachyarmatherium leiseyi.
		: The new species of small glyptodont you refer to is pachyarmatherium leiseyi.
		By the way, I have collected some scutes from this animal in a late Pliocene/early Pleistocene site in coastal S.C. Here is a link with a photo of the animal's scute: : http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/vertpaleo/gallery/tUF64347.htm : : I live in and collect mammal fossils in Florida.
	www.gtlsys.com /FossilForum/messages/11621.html (270 words)

	Inconsistency: Fleeing the Flood, Recolonization - TheologyWeb Campus
		David must have birds who can't fly, swim to Pacific Islands, Glyptodonts, who can't swim, must somehow make their way across the already formed Atlantic Ocean, and sloths who can't take the cold must swim cold waters to get to the New World.
		Clearly, as the dodo lost his flight through a microevolutionary loss of information, so did the glyptodont and giant sloth after flying to South America.
		I like to cite the glyptodont vs. pterodactyl situation myself - glyptodonts were heavy, slow and lived on plains - pterodactyls were light, airborne and could live on cliffs or in trees - yet the glyptodonts are found higher than the pterodactyls.
	www.theologyweb.com /forum/showthread.php?t=18536 (1601 words)

	The Sanilac Petroglyphs, Paleo-cryptozoology and Controversy
		Several of the scientists in our group commented that this first petroglyph resembles a glyptodont or doedicurus.
		These creatures were large armadillo-like creatures about the size of a Volkswagen, and this photograph shows the creature in a curled-up defensive position, much like that of the armadillo.
		Immediately above the "glyptodont" petroglyph is a faded carving that is quite intriguing.
	www.rae.org /sanilac.html (1112 words)

	Desert Diary, 18 Jan 2005: Immigrants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Not all traffic was south to north, of course, but that's another story.
		The South Americans included a variety of large ground sloths; the massive, vaguely armadillo-like glyptodont; a large rodent closely related to the living capybara; and a bristly critter known as the porcupine.
		Now apparently there is something to be said about being prickly and perhaps a bit grumpy.
	museum.utep.edu /archive/mammals/DDimmigrants.htm (241 words)

	La Venta Fauna : Gallery
		Scutes from the body armor and tail-tube of a Dasypodid armadillo.
		Reassembled portion of the armor which would have covered the back and sides of a sizeable glyptodont.
		Almost all fossils of armadillos and glyptodonts from South America have come from Patagonia.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /tertiary/mio/lagallery.html (490 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In addition, a pair of dagger like canine tusks jutted downward from its upper jaw.
		The now extinct Glyptodont lived during the Pleistocene period.
		Unlike its modern cousin, the armadillo, Glyptodont was a giant creature well over ten feet long!
	laurier.vsb.bc.ca /studentp/AdamGeoff/eh.html (153 words)

	Discovery Channel :: Walking With Prehistoric Beasts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Doedicurus was a glyptodont, related to both living armadillos and sloths and anteaters.
		The size of a small car, with an armored carapace and spiked tail of solid bone, it grazed the grasslands of South America.
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	dsc.discovery.com /convergence/beasts/photo/photo_zoom8.html (77 words)

	SearchBuffer.com - Search for glyptodont (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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	www.searchbuffer.com /words/g/glyptodont.html (71 words)

	Good Books
		All the pictures in the book are drawn to the same scale.
		There are a lot of animals here which you probably have never seen before, such as Doedicurus, an extinct armadillo-like glyptodont with a 5.5-foot-high shell!
		This is full of amazing color illustrations of the strangest creatures in the world, both living and extinct.
	thinkzone.wlonk.com /Books/BookList.htm (655 words)

	Detail from North Anmerican Pleistocene Landscape, from work for the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. ...
		During the Pleistocene, much of what is now the center of North America was a savanna, populated by megafauna like the mammoths and bison shown in Karen's "North American Pleistocene Landscape."
		While mammoths, giant bison and the armadillo-like glyptodont have disappeared from North America, other animals shown in Karen's Pleistocene environment can still be seen, including the gopher tortoise and ruddy ducks.
		Many of the flowers and trees in Karen's mural can still be found, as well.
	www.karencarr.com /gallery_glypto.html (217 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Science and the Endangered Species Act (1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The P-H extinction event primarily affected large-mammal species (244 kg); nearly all amphibian, reptile, and small-mammal species survived.
		A variety of North American megafauna was lost, including two glyptodont, four ground sloth, two bear, two sabertooth, one cheetah, one beaver, two capybara, two mastodon, one mammoth, one horse, one tapir, two peccary, three camel, two deer, one pronghorn, and four bovid genera (Martin, 1984, 1990~.
		The collapse of the large North American mammal communities led to the demise of dependent species, such as carrion-feeding birds that fed on the abundant variety of carrion provided by herds of large animals, much as in modern African game parks.
	www.nap.edu /books/0309052912/html/19.html (8139 words)

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