Name: Glyptodon.
Meaning: Sculptured
or grooved tooth.
Grouping: Mammal,
Xenarthran.
Informal ID: Prehistoric
armadillo.
Fossil size: Overall width
15cm/6in
Reconstructedsize:
Nose-tail length 2m/6~h.
Habitat: Plains.
Time span: Pleistocene,
within past 2 million years.
Main fossil sites:
'South America.
Occurrence: ••