cingulatan

English

Etymology

From Cingulata +‎ -an.

Noun

cingulatan (plural cingulatans)

1. (rare) A mammal of the order Cingulata (including the armadillos and other extinct species).
   • 2006, David Whyte Macdonald, The Encyclopedia of Mammals:

     In contrast, the success of the living pilosans and cingulatans was due to their occupation of relatively narrow niches, which allowed little space for the less specialized newcomers.

   • 2011, Terry Vaughan, Mammalogy, page 148:

     As a result, in the past, pilosans, cingulatans, and pangolins were frequently combined in the no-longer-recognized order Edentata.

   • 2013, Max Hecht, Major Patterns in Vertebrate Evolution‎^[1], page 352:

     In contrast to what I perceive to be a lack of special similarity in the astragalocalcaneal complex of the Palaeanodonta and Pholidota, the palaeanodont and dasypodid cingulatan derived similarities of these two bones are extremely suggestive of a common ancestral pattern.

Anagrams

• canulating