| Macrochorobates Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Placentalia |
| Order: | Cingulata |
| Family: | Chlamyphoridae |
| Genus: | †Macrochorobates |
| Species: | †M. scalabrinii
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| Binomial name | |
| †Macrochorobates scalabrinii Moreno and Mercerat, 1891
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Macrochorobates is an extinct genus of euphractine cingulate that lived in South America during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs.1
Palaeobiology
Palaeoecology
Macrochorobates scalabrinii is interpreted to have had a carnivorous diet intermediate between that of the specialist carnivore Macroeuphractus and the generalist Euphractus.2
References
References
- "PBDB Taxon". Retrieved 24 December 2025.
- Barasoain, Daniel; Tomassini, Rodrigo L; Quiñones, Sofía I; González-Ruiz, Laureano R; Bonini, Ricardo A; Zurita, Alfredo E (9 December 2024). "Evolutionary, taxonomical, and ecological traits of the Late Neogene armadillo Macrochorobates Scillato-Yané (Xenarthra: Cingulata)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 202 (4). doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae124. ISSN 0024-4082. Retrieved 24 December 2025 – via Oxford Academic.