Megalonychidae is an extinct family of sloths including the extinct Megalonyx. Megalonychids first appeared in the early Oligocene, about 35 million years...
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morphological studies to be the only surviving members of the sloth family Megalonychidae, but have now been shown by molecular results to be closest to extinct...
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Ground sloth (section Megalonychidae)
Mammalia Order: Pilosa Suborder: Folivora Families †Megalocnidae (in part) †Megalonychidae †Megatheriidae †Nothrotheriidae †Mylodontidae †Scelidotheriidae...
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the small island of Isla Escudo de Veraguas off the coast of Panama. †Megalonychidae: ground sloths that existed for about 35 million years and went extinct...
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(Greek, "great-claw") is an extinct genus of ground sloths of the family Megalonychidae, native to North America. It evolved during the Pliocene Epoch and became...
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Gray 1821 Family Bradypodidae Gray 1821 (three-toed sloths) Family †Megalonychidae Gervais 1855 (megalonychid ground sloths) Family †Megatheriidae Gray...
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genus of the extinct family Megalonychidae within the suborder Folivora and the superorder Xenarthra. The Megalonychidae represent a very diverse group...
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but are absent from Jamaica. While they were formerly placed in the Megalonychidae alongside two-toed sloths and ground sloths like Megalonyx, recent mitochondrial...
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history of Megalonyx Jefferson, 1799 (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Pilosa, Megalonychidae)". ZooKeys (1195): 297–308. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1195.117999. ISSN 1313-2970...
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history of Megalonyx Jefferson, 1799 (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Pilosa, Megalonychidae)". ZooKeys (1195): 297–308. Bibcode:2024ZooK.1195..297B. doi:10.3897/zookeys...
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history of Megalonyx Jefferson, 1799 (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Pilosa, Megalonychidae)". ZooKeys (1195): 297–308. Bibcode:2024ZooK.1195..297B. doi:10.3897/zookeys...
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history of Megalonyx Jefferson, 1799 (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Pilosa, Megalonychidae)". ZooKeys (1195): 297–308. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1195.117999. ISSN 1313-2970...
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† Megalonychidae † Megalonyx jeffersoni Bradypodidae (three-toed sloths)...
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† Megalonychidae Bradypodidae (three-toed sloths)...
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to very large sloths in the group Folivora, which, together with the Megalonychidae and the Nothrotheriidae, form the superfamily Megatherioidea. The Megatherioidea...
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be within Megalonychidae. As part of his review of the genus, Brandoni moved Ortotherium to an indeterminate position within Megalonychidae, though noted...
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This is a list of North American mammals. It includes all mammals currently found in the United States, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda...
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believed, on the basis of morphological studies, to be part of the family Megalonychidae, which includes some of the extinct giant ground sloths, such as Megalonyx...
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List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene (section Megalonychid ground sloths (family Megalonychidae))
This is a list of North American animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11...
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Pliometanastes is an extinct genus of ground sloths of the family Megalonychidae endemic to North America during the Late Miocene epoch through very early...
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Distribution of the Two-Toed Sloth, Choloepus didactylus (Xenarthra, Megalonychidae)". Edentata. 7: 7–9. doi:10.1896/1413-4411.7.1.7. ISSN 1413-4411. "Choloepus...
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ISSN 2470-1394. PMID 26404730. Hayssen, V. (2011). "Choloepus hoffmanni (Pilosa: Megalonychidae)". Mammalian Species. 43 (1): 37–55. doi:10.1644/873.1. Mendel, Frank...
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†Megalonychidae (Megalonyx) †Nothrotheriidae (Nothrotheriops)...
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Bradypus tridactylus Maned three-toed sloth, Bradypus torquatus Family †Megalonychidae: megalonychid ground sloths Family †Megatheriidae: megatheriid ground...
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According to molecular phylogenetic analysis, Bradypodidae nests with Megalonychidae, Megatheriidae and Nothrotheriidae in the sloth superfamily Megatherioidea...
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List of South American animals extinct in the Holocene (section Megalonychid ground sloths (family Megalonychidae))
This is a list of South American animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11...
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Eremotherium Megatherium Nothrotheriidae spp. Nothropus Nothrotherium Megalonychidae spp. Ahytherium Australonyx Diabolotherium Megistonyx Mylodontidae spp...
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(hyraxes) Order Pilosa Family Bradypodidae (three-toed tree sloths) Family Megalonychidae (two-toed tree sloths) Family Myrmecophagidae (tamanduas and giant anteater)...
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†Megalonychidae (Megalonyx) †Nothrotheriidae (Nothrotheriops)...
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