cingulatan
Noun
A mammal of the order Cingulata (including the armadillos and other extinct species).
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In contrast, the success of the living pilosans and cingulatans was due to their occupation of relatively narrow niches, which allowed little space for the less specialized newcomers.
As a result, in the past, pilosans, cingulatans, and pangolins were frequently combined in the no-longer-recognized order Edentata.
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In contrast to what I perceive to be a lack of special similarity in the astragalocalcaneal complex of the Palaeanodonta and Pholidota, the palaeanodont and dasypodid cingulatan derived similarities of these two bones are extremely suggestive of a common ancestral pattern.
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cingulatans