Lestodon sp.

Verger, Kévin Le, 2023, Xenarthrans of the collection of Santiago Roth from the Pampean Region of Argentina (Pleistocene), in Zurich, Switzerland, Swiss Journal of Palaeontology (3) 142 (1), pp. 1-39 : 23

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00265-7
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scientific name	Lestodon sp.
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Treatment

Lestodon sp.

Referred material: One incomplete femur and ten vertebrae: PIMUZ A/ V 503.

Comment: Te taxonomic revision is difficult for PIMUZ A/V 503 because the specimen is represented only by vertebrae and an incomplete and fragmentary femur. While a recent study has provided new diagnostic evidence for postcranial material of Lestodon (Vargas-Peixoto et al., 2021) , the vertebrae do not allow for a genus identification and the femur is too fragmentary (Vargas-Peixoto et al., 2021). Te specimen was first identified as a Mylodon armatus Lydekker, 1887 by Schulthess (1920), and, following literature, this species was synonymized with L. armatus (Czerwonogora & Fariña, 2013) . As with Neosclerocalyptinae, I propose to follow the synonymization at the genus level and reassign PIMUZ A/V 503 to Lestodon sp.