Rare North American Armadillo

Calyptophractus retusus, or the Greater fairy Armadillo, is known from five collections in North America, and one of these in housed in our mammal collection, an awareness acquired following of the release of the database of our holdings via VertNet.
For more info on this and related species see:
DELSUC, F., SUPERINA, M., TILAK, M.-K., DOUZERY, E. J. P. & HASSANIN, A. 2012. Molecular phylogenetics unveils the ancient evolutionary origins of the enigmatic fairy armadillos. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62(2):673-680.