After a farmer stumbled across a metre-long shell in a rural area outside the city of Ezeiza on Christmas Day, a team of paleontologists confirmed on Wednesday that the find was in fact a glyptodon fossil that may be up to 10,000 years old.
Glyptodon was a large, armoured mammal that resembled and was a relative of the armadillos. It gave its name to the family of glyptodonts. They lived during the Pliocene and Pleistocene, from about 2.5 million years ago to 10,000 years ago.
Glyptodon, and most of the American megafauna, became extinct by about 10,000 years ago. It is believed that humans hunted these animals and used their bony shells as shelters during inclement weather.
Source: http://prehistoricearth.wikia.com/wiki/Glyptodon * Ruptly TV
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