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    Glossotherium is an extinct genus of large mylodontid ground sloths of the subfamily Mylodontinae. It represents one of the best-known members of the...
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    1950s increasingly with Glossotherium. Paramylodon shares numerous features that suggest a close relationship with Glossotherium. Only since the 1990s have...
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    65 tonnes. Thus, Mylodon had about the size of related forms such as Glossotherium or Paramylodon, but was significantly smaller than the giant Lestodon...
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    At the Santa Elina rockshelter in Mato Grosso Brazil, a specimen of Glossotherium is associated with hearths and stone tools, dating to 11,833–11,804...
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    were only present in a handful of genera (Mylodon, Paramylodon and Glossotherium) and absent in others. The following sloth family phylogenetic tree...
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  • expert opinion; presented as bipedal and more hominin than pongine), Glossotherium, Smilodon, Gigantophis, Ichthyosaurus and the London-based replica of...
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  • fossils have been reported from the formation: Antifer Dusicyon avus Glossotherium robustum Gomphotheridae indet. Hippidion Lestodon armatus Lundomys molitor...
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    long, with claw marks from excavation referred to the ground sloths Glossotherium or Scelidotherium. Remains of ground sloths (Mylodon and others) in...
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    along side the smaller (though still large) ground sloths Mylodon, Glossotherium Lestodon and Catonyx, the rhinoceros like ungulate Toxodon, the camel-like...
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    Lestodon armatus (C, middle left) Mylodon darwinii (D, middle right) Glossotherium robustum (E, bottom left) and Catonyx cf. C. cuvieri (F, bottom right)...
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  • believe that they were dug by giant ground sloths, possibly Catonyx, Glossotherium, or Lestodon. Another group believes that even the largest burrows are...
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    have reoccupied caves excavated by Xenarthra, such as the mylodonts Glossotherium and Scelidotherium, and the pampatheriid Pampatherium. As suitable paleoburrows...
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    proportions of its forelimbs are similar to those of mylodontids like Glossotherium that are suggested to have engaged in digging, the strength of its forelimb...
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    Lestodon, along with the smaller (but still large) ground sloths Mylodon, Glossotherium, and Scelidotherium, the glyptodonts (very large armadillos with fused...
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    type genus is Lestodon, which sometimes also includes Paramylodon and Glossotherium (sometimes also listed as belonging to the tribes Mylodontini and Lestodontini...
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    Diabolotherium Megistonyx Mylodontidae spp. (including Scelidotheriinae) Catonyx Glossotherium Lestodon Mylodon Scelidotherium Scelidodon Mylodonopsis Ocnotherium...
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    Megalocnus rodens, Scelidotherium cuvieri, Megalonyx wheatleyi and Glossotherium robustus A Triceratops and a Stegosaurus are also both on display, among...
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    Glossotherium Paramylodon...
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    Lestodon Magdalenabradys Sphenotherus Thinobadistes Mylodontini Glossotheridium Glossotherium Kiyumylodon Mylodon Paramylodon Pleurolestodon Simomylodon...
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    of the scelidothere Catonyx, and the mylodontid genera Mylodon and Glossotherium. Some other groups are known, including the unusual litopterns Macrauchenia...
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    of Glyptodont armour and a head that Owen initially identified as a Glossotherium, but later decided was a Mylodon. Owen found fragments of the jaw and...
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    Glossotherium robustus † Mylodon darwinii...
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    Glossotherium robustus † Mylodon darwinii...
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    Lestodon Magdalenabradys Sphenotherus Thinobadistes Mylodontini Glossotheridium Glossotherium Kiyumylodon Mylodon Paramylodon Pleurolestodon Simomylodon...
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  • frontal line was flat, lacking a dome-like bulge such as occurred in Glossotherium or Thinobadistes. The nasal bone was oriented slightly upwards. In anterior...
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    ground sloths (Eremotherium) †Mylodontid ground sloths (Thinobadistes, Glossotherium, Paramylodon) †Nothrotheriid ground sloths (Nothrotheriops, Nothrotherium)...
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    Megatherium americanum and Lestodon the smaller ground sloths Scelidotherium, Glossotherium and Mylodon, the glyptodont Glyptodon, the equine Equus neogeus, the...
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    Lestodon Magdalenabradys Sphenotherus Thinobadistes Mylodontini Glossotheridium Glossotherium Kiyumylodon Mylodon Paramylodon Pleurolestodon Simomylodon...
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    Lestodon Magdalenabradys Sphenotherus Thinobadistes Mylodontini Glossotheridium Glossotherium Kiyumylodon Mylodon Paramylodon Pleurolestodon Simomylodon...
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    sloth Eremotherium, the fellow scelidotheriid Valgipes, the mylodontids Glossotherium, Ocnotherium, and Mylodonopsis. Smaller ground sloths such as the megalonychids...
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