File:Glyptotherium texanum shell.jpg

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Close-up of a nearly complete glyptodont shell (Glyptotherium texanum). Glyptodonts, close cousins of armadillos, are the only mammal known to have a hard, inflexible, turtle-like shell; they became

extinct at the end of the Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago.
Source http://www.blm.gov/heritage/cratrisk/Proj2002/AZ/ACECfossil/Graham_Mus3/pages/5Glypshell_gif.htm
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Public domain This image is a work of a Bureau of Land Management* employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States.
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20:01, 19 May 2008 User:Bob the Wikipedian 700×525 99 KB {{Information |Description=Close-up of a nearly complete glyptodont shell (Glyptotherium texanum). Glyptodonts, close cousins of armadillos, are the only mammal known to have a hard, inflexible, turtle-like shell; they became extinct at the end of the Ice

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