Ahytherium is an extinct genus of megalonychid sloth that lived during the Pleistocene of what is now Brazil. It contains a single species, A. aureum...

Scientific name Range Comments Pictures Ahytherium aureum Eastern Brazil Found in the late Pleistocene to early Holocene of Upper Ribeira Valley, southeastern...

juvenile megalonychid, interpreted as likely belonging to the species Ahytherium aureum and bearing marks indicating that it was fed on (and possibly predated...