Product Description
Our small plastic doedicurus toy is nice for any fan of Ice Age animals. The fine details may make it look bigger in the photo than it really is, but this miniature extinct giant armadillo replica is just the right size for your prehistoric life or Ice Age shoebox diorama. Our doedicurus model will fit in a shoe box along with other examples of extinct animals from the Earth's past. Add a few rocks, plants, grass, make a river or stream from anything that strikes your imagination, and there you go - a scene of life on our planet as it might have been many thousands of years ago. Our plastic toy Pleistocene mammal is painted to look the way paleontologists imagine the animal looked in real life, although of course nobody really knows.
Doedicurus clavicaudatus was a prehistoric glyptodont, living during the Pleistocene until the end of the last glacial period, some 11,000 years ago. Its name means "pestle tail", referring to how, if the spikes were removed from the end of the tail, it would resemble a pestle. This was the largest known glyptodont, and one of the better-known members of the South American Pleistocene megafauna.