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Ancient fossilized members of human beings and those species directly ancestral to modern humans. Fossil humans comprise all prehistoric skeletal remains of humans that are archeologically earlier than the Neolithic (necessarily an imprecise limit,…

Any member of the extinct mammalian subfamily Glyptodontinae, comprising giant, heavily armored relatives of armadillos. The extinct prehistoric creatures known as glyptodonts (whose name is derived from the Greek term for "grooved tooth") [Fig. 1]…