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.
Sources
- Hallan restos de un gliptodonte con marcas de origen humano que replantean las hipótesis sobre el poblamiento de América | CONICET (conicet.gov.ar)
- https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0304956 (journals.plos.org)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11253959/ (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://www.npr.org/tags/g-s1-12432/glyptodont (npr.org)