Parapropalaehoplophorus

{{Short description|An extinct genus of mammals belonging to the armadillo order of xenarthrans}}

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| fossil_range = Early-Mid Miocene (Santacrucian-Laventan)
~{{fossil range|17.5|11.8}}

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| genus = Parapropalaehoplophorus

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| species = septentrionalis

| authority = Croft, Flynn & Wyss, 2007

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Parapropalaehoplophorus is an extinct genus of comparatively small (compared to Glyptodon) species of glyptodont, extinct relatives of the modern armadillo. The sole species, P. septentrionalis, identified in 2007 from the fossilized remains of a specimen found in 2004, weighed approximately 200 pounds and had a shell covered by tiny circular bumps.{{Cite journal |last1=Croft |first1=Darin A. |last2=Flynn |first2=John J. |last3=Wyss |first3=André R. |date=2007-12-12 |title=A new basal glyptodontid and other Xenarthra of the early Miocene Chucal Fauna, Northern Chile |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1671/0272-4634%282007%2927%5B781%3AANBGAO%5D2.0.CO%3B2 |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |language=en |volume=27 |issue=4 |pages=781–797 |doi=10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[781:ANBGAO]2.0.CO;2 |s2cid=85892530 |issn=0272-4634}} It lumbered around northern Chile in the Chucal Formation, an area now dominated by the Andes mountain range, some 18 million years ago.[http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/12/12/armadillo-fossil.html?dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000 Giant Armadillo Relative Found] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213192435/http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/12/12/armadillo-fossil.html?dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000 |date=2007-12-13 }} Discovery News[https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071212103049.htm Primitive Early Relative Of Armadillos Helps Rewrite Evolutionary Family Tree] ScienceDaily.com Fossils of the glyptodont also have been found in Peru (Ipururo and Pebas Formations).[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=176101 Parapropalaehoplophorus septentrionalis] at Fossilworks.org