Name: Kuntinaru.
Phonetic: Kun-tin-ah-ru.
Named By: Guillaume Billet, Lionel Hautier,
Christian de Muizon & Xavier Valentin - 2011.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia, Xenarthra,
Cingulata, Dasypodidae, Tolypeutinae.
Species: K. boliviensis
(type).
Diet: Herbivore.
Size: Uncertain.
Known locations: Bolivia.
Time period: Oligocene.
Fossil representation: Partial skull.
Known from a partial skull, Kuntinaru is a genus of dasypodid armadillo that lived in Bolivia during the Oligocene.
Further reading
- Oldest cingulate skulls provide congruence between morphological
and molecular scenarios of armadillo evolution. - Proceedings of
the Royal Society B 278 (1719): 2791–2797. - Guillaume
Billet, Lionel Hautier, Christian de Muizon & Xavier
Valentin - 2011.