2. Edentata means
"toothless."
Xenarthra means
"strange joint."

3. General features
 placental mammals
• Lack incisor and canine teeth
• Lack teeth enamel
 Bone like structure called osteodentin
• two or three very long fingers in each hands
• excess joints between the ribs and lumbar region allowing
their joints to move in a manor
• their teeth are held in by a single root each

4. Low body temperatures
Low metabolic rates
Polygynous
Meaning males can mate with
several females

5. Order Cingulata (armadillo)
Armadillo in Spanish means
“little armoured one”

6. General Features
 leathery armor s
hell
 formed by
plates of
dermal bone
 epidermal
scales called
"scutes“

7.  Lack teeth (incisor and canines)
teeth are cylindrical and toothless

8.  prolific diggers(pronounced claws to
forage foods or dig dens
 birth of 1 to 12 young from a single
ovum (monozygotic polyembryony).

9. Order Pilosa
(sloth)

10. Family Megalonychidae (two-toed sloths)

11. Family Bradypodidae (three toed
sloths)

12. General features
 Arboreal (have great difficulty moving on the ground)
 Often move upside-down on the underside of
branches
 Long-limbed, with forelimbs longer than hind
 Toes are fused ( syndactyly )
 Cervical vertebrae are variable in number (6-9)

13.  Teeth
*Lack incisors and canines
*Cylindrical, homodont, rootless teeth
 Rudimentary tail
 Herbivorous: eat buds, flowers, fruit
 Very, very low metabolic rate and poor temperature
regulation

14. Order Vermilingua

15. General features
 feed on ants and termites (myrmecophagy)
 long tapered skull
 terrible eyesight but a keen sense of smell.
 powerful clawed forelimbs with 3 toes

16.  no teeth(long snout and tiny mouth with long sticky
tongue extending to posterior portion of sternum)
flickers their tongue for 160 times/min
 large salivary glands
 Muscular stomach
 Gestation period: 6 months