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Holmesina Giant Armadillo Scute #86

$20.00

Fossil Mammal Collection – Armadillo

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Description

Holmesina Giant Armadillo

  • Giant Armadillo – Holmesina septentrionalis
  • Scute/Armor Plate
  • Pleistocene
  • Marion County, Florida
  • Specimen measures  1.70″ wide and comes in a 3.25″ x 4.25″ Display as Shown.
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Holmesina individuals were much larger than any modern armadillo. For example they could reach a length of 6.6 ft and also reached a weight of 500 lbs. In contrast the modern giant armadillo does not attain more than 119 lbs.
Their shell was made up of flexible plates or scutes which subsequently allowed the animal to move more easily.

Holmesina Giant Armadillo

Life Drawing By Nobu Tamura