Eleutherocercus

Eleutherocercus was a genus of glyptodonts that lived during the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene in South America.^[1] Fossils of the genus have been found in the Huayquerian Ituzaingó Formation (E. paranensis) and the Montehermosan Monte Hermoso Formation (E. antiquus) in Argentina.^[2][3]

Eleutherocercus Temporal range: Late Miocene-Early Pliocene (Huayquerian-Montehermosan) ~9.0–4.0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Eleutherocercus setifer tail armour at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Cingulata
Family:	Chlamyphoridae
Subfamily:	†Glyptodontinae
Genus:	†Eleutherocercus Koken, 1888
Type species
†Eleutherocercus setifer Koken, 1888
Species
E. antiquus E. solidus Roberto, 1924
Synonyms
Eleutherocercus tucumanus Castellanos, 1927

Phylogeny

Below are the results of a phylogenetic analysis conducted by Zurita et al., 2016 showing the position of Eleutherocercus in relation to other glyptodontines:^[4]

Propalaehoplophorus australis Glyptodontinae Glyptotherium cylindricum Glyptodon reticulatus Cochlops muricatus Plohophorus figuratus Doedicurinae cf. Eleutherocercus antiquus Doedicurus clavicaudatus Hoplophorini Hoplophorus euphractus Panochthus intermedius Neosclerocalyptini Neosclerocalyptus paskoensis Neosclerocalyptus gouldi Neosclerocalyptus ornatus Neosclerocalyptus castellanosi Neosclerocalyptus pseudornatus