small island in Panama. The record of a tamandua from Cozumel, off Mexico, was probably in error. The genera of Caribbean pilosans are classified as follows...
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exclusively so. Some other pilosans are still found on islands along the margin of the Caribbean. The order Eulipotyphla includes the hedgehogs, gymnures, shrews...
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Megalocnidae (category Mammals of the Caribbean)
Imagocnus †I. zazae Early Miocene of Cuba For other sloth taxa of the Caribbean, see Pilosans of the Caribbean. The following sloth family phylogenetic...
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of eulipotyphlans of the Caribbean Pilosans of the Caribbean Rodents of the Caribbean Sealife Caribbean hermit crab Caribbean Queen Conch Caribbean reef...
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Megalocnus (category Mammals of the Caribbean)
view of AMNH mount in left foreground Pilosans of the Caribbean Couto, C. D. P. (1967). Pleistocene edentates of the West Indies. American Museum novitates;...
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Pygmy three-toed sloth (category Mammals of the Caribbean)
documented. Pilosans of the Caribbean Voirin, B.; Smith, D.; Chiarello, A.; Moraes-Barros, N. (2014). "Bradypus pygmaeus". IUCN Red List of Threatened...
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Acratocnus (category Mammals of the Caribbean)
Paleontology portal Prehistoric mammals portal Pilosans of the Caribbean Anthony, H. E. 1918. The indigenous land mammals of Porto Rico, living and extinct. Mem...
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Neocnus (category Mammals of the Caribbean)
the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean for its pelt and meat. Neocnus is suspected of having been semi-arboreal. Paleontology portal Pilosans of the...
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Imagocnus (category Miocene mammals of North America)
though the genera Megalocnus and Parocnus, other ground sloths, are its most likely relatives. Paleontology portal Prehistoric mammals portal Pilosans of the...
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Peopling of the Americas European colonization of the Americas Fossil primates of South America and the Caribbean Pilosans of the Caribbean Rodents of the Caribbean...
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Anteater (redirect from Evolution of anteaters)
endemic to the New World, where they are found on the mainland from southern Mexico to northern Argentina, as well as some of the Caribbean islands. Like...
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Beatty (2019). "Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. XII. Stegosiren macei, gen. et sp. nov". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39...
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Megatheriidae (category Neogene mammals of South America)
family of extinct ground sloths that lived from approximately 23 mya—11,000 years ago. Megatheriids appeared during the Late Oligocene (Deseadan in the SALMA...
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Sloth (redirect from Evolution of sloths)
led to oceanic dispersal of pilosans to the Greater Antilles by the Oligocene, and that the megalonychid Pliometanastes and the mylodontid Thinobadistes...
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Scelidotheriidae is a family of extinct ground sloths within the order Pilosa, suborder Folivora and superfamily Mylodontoidea, related to the other extinct mylodontoid...
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the Caribbean–Pacific water interchange continued during the shallowing of the Central American Seaway in the Miocene. Fossil material of a member of Chaeomysticeti...
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Mylodontidae (category Neogene mammals of South America)
Mylodontidae is a family of extinct South American and North American ground sloths within the suborder Folivora of order Pilosa, living from around 23...
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Largest prehistoric animals (redirect from List of largest prehistoric carnivorans)
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includes the Caribbean sloths Neocnus, Parocnus Megalocnus and Arcatocnus which have been placed in the separate family Megalocnidae, well as the two toed...
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Parocnus (category Mammals of the Caribbean)
of sloth native to Cuba and Hispaniola, belonging to the family Megalocnidae. It was a terrestrial ground sloth, being the second largest Caribbean sloth...
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Lestodon (category Pliocene mammals of South America)
extinct genus of giant ground sloth native to South America during the Pleistocene epoch. Its fossil remains have been primarily been found in the Pampas and...
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Diabolotherium (category Pleistocene mammals of South America)
similar to extinct sloths from the Caribbean. Fossils of the genus were found at the coastal Piedra Escrita site and the Andean Casa del Diablo cave. Diabolotherium...
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Nothrotheriidae (category Neogene mammals of South America)
predators, like those of larger anteaters today. During the late Miocene and Pliocene, the sloth genus Thalassocnus of the west coast of South America became...
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Mylodon (category Pleistocene mammals of South America)
two-toed sloths were close to Caribbean sloths and Megalonyx, now regarded as representing two separate and distant branches of the sloth evolutionary tree...
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Megathericulus (category Miocene mammals of South America)
drained north into the Caribbean Sea. As the Pebas megawetland, they represent the forerunner of today's Amazon rainforest. The lower jaw find itself was...
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Baraguatherium (category Miocene mammals of South America)
in the boundary of the Caribbean to the South American Plate. An almost complete depositional sequence has been preserved here, ranging from the Eocene...
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Miocnus (category Pleistocene Caribbean)
Miocnus is an extinct genus of ground sloths of the family Megalocnidae endemic to Cuba during the Pleistocene and very early Holocene epochs, living from...
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Ahytherium (category Pleistocene mammals of South America)
another consists of the North American forms Megalonyx and Pliometanastes (here, since based on skeletal features, also Caribbean sloths such as Megalocnus...
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Pseudoprepotherium (category Miocene mammals of South America)
rivers connected to the Caribbean. It can now be described as "the Pebas mega wetland". Some of the finds, however, are assigned to the species Pseudoprepotherium...
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