The glyptodont skeleton belongs to the genus Neoesclerocalyptus, which became extinct about 10,000 years ago.
Notes on verification
Genus attribution confirmed by peer-reviewed PLOS ONE study; extinction timing corroborated by multiple independent sources (NPR, Wikipedia, Grokipedia), with minor variance (8,000-12,000 years ago) reflecting normal rounding across sources rather than factual dispute. [cascade flags: wikipedia_dropped_other_sources_exist | tier=silver indep_score=1.0 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=partial (upstreams: PLOS ONE study (Del Papa, de los Reyes, Delgado et al. 2024), Wikipedia glyptodont/Neosclerocalyptus articles) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=empirical eligibility=high]
Sources
- Hallan restos de un gliptodonte con marcas de origen humano que replantean las hipótesis sobre el poblamiento de América | CONICET (seed:history_and_archaeology)
- https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0304956 (corroboration)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11253959/ (corroboration)
- https://www.npr.org/tags/g-s1-12432/glyptodont (corroboration)