Plaxhaplous

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

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| fossil_range = Early-Mid Pleistocene (Uquian-Ensenadan)
~{{fossil range|2.588|0.781}}

| display_parents = 2

| genus = Plaxhaplous

| parent_authority = Ameghino, 1884

| species = canaliculatus

| authority = Ameghino, 1884

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Plaxhaplous was a genus of glyptodont, an extinct relative of the modern armadillo. It lived in the Pleistocene epoch.{{cite journal|title=Estudios Sobre la Familia Glyptodontidae|author=Rinderknecht, A.|journal=Comunicaciones Paleantologicas del Museo Historia Natural de Montervideo|volume=2|issue=31|year=1999|url=http://www.mec.gub.uy/innovaportal/file/25795/1/cp31.pdf|accessdate=2015-04-07}} The type species is Plaxhaplous canaliculatus.{{cite book|title=North America Fauna|issue=23|publisher=U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service|year=1904|pages=546, 817|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uFQWAAAAYAAJ&q=Plaxhaplous&pg=PA546|accessdate=2015-04-07}} Plaxhaplous canaliculatus fossils were found in Argentina, near Luján in Buenos Aires Province. Plaxhaplous fossils have also been found in Uruguay. and in the Charana Formation of Bolivia.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=43589 Plaxhaplous] at Fossilworks.org