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| Ringueletia Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Cingulata |
| Family: | Dasypodidae |
| Genus: | †Ringueletia |
| Species: | †R. simpsoni |
| Binomial name | |
| †Ringueletia simpsoni Bordas, 1933 | |
Ringueletia is an extinct genus of dasypodid cingulate that lived in South America during the Neogene and Quaternary periods.
Palaeoecology
[edit]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
[edit]- ↑ 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.