Megatheriidae is a family of extinct ground sloths that lived from approximately 23 mya—11,000 years ago. Megatheriids appeared during the Late Oligocene...
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Ground sloth (section Megatheriidae)
that they had well developed claws. In many ground sloth families (Megatheriidae, Mylodontidae, Scelidotheriidae and Nothrotheriidae), the hindfoot is...
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known from the Andean region. Megatherium is part of the sloth family Megatheriidae, which also includes the closely related and similarly giant Eremotherium...
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θηρίον "beast") is an extinct genus of giant ground sloth in the family Megatheriidae. Eremotherium lived in southern North America, Central America, and...
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subfamily of the Megatheriidae, an extinct family of ground sloths that lived from the Middle Miocene to the Early Holocene. Within the Megatheriidae there are...
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formations of Chile. Thalassocninae has been placed in both the families Megatheriidae and Nothrotheriidae. Thalassocnus evolved several marine adaptations...
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Family †Megalonychidae Gervais 1855 (megalonychid ground sloths) Family †Megatheriidae Gray 1821 (megatheriid ground sloths) Family †Nothrotheriidae Ameghino...
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both the two-toed sloths and the extinct Greater Antilles sloths. †Megatheriidae: ground sloths that existed for about 23 million years and went extinct...
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within the tribe Nothrotheriini or subfamily Nothrotheriinae within Megatheriidae, they are now usually placed in their own family, Nothrotheriidae. Nothrotheriids...
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(1999): A new giant megatheriine ground sloth (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Megatheriidae) from the late Blancan to early Irvingtonian of Florida. Zool. J. Linn...
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in the Pleistocene Ground Sloth Nothrotheriops shastense (Mammalia, Megatheriidae), Contributions in Science 389, October 1987, Natural History Museum...
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Sibotherium is an extinct genus of ground sloth in the family Megatheriidae that lived in what is now Costa Rica during the Late Miocene. It was a large...
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Proeremotherium is an extinct genus of megatheriine ground sloths in the family Megatheriidae. It lived during the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene of what is now...
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molecular phylogenetic analysis, Bradypodidae nests with Megalonychidae, Megatheriidae and Nothrotheriidae in the sloth superfamily Megatherioidea. The generic...
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Isla, Federico (1 April 2021). "A new record of Megatherium (Folivora, Megatheriidae) in the late Pliocene of the Pampean region (Argentina)". Journal of...
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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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1999). "A new giant megatheriine ground sloth (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Megatheriidae) from the late Blancan to early Irvingtonian of Florida". Zoological...
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Myliobatis sp. Orycterocetus sp. Rhinoptera sp. Sparus sp. Emydinae indet. Megatheriidae indet. Mylodontidae indet. Tayassuidae indet. List of fossiliferous...
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† Nothrotheriidae † Nothrotheriops shastensis † Megatheriidae † Megatherium americanum...
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torquatus Family †Megalonychidae: megalonychid ground sloths Family †Megatheriidae: megatheriid ground sloths Family †Nothrotheriidae: nothrotheriid ground...
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List of South American animals extinct in the Holocene (section Giant ground sloths (family Megatheriidae))
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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Cuvieronius Notiomastodon Xenarthrans All remaining ground sloth genera Megatheriidae spp. Eremotherium Megatherium Nothrotheriidae spp. Nothropus Nothrotherium...
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Megathericulus is an extinct genus of ground sloths in the Megatheriidae family. It lived during the Middle Miocene, 11-16 Ma in what is now South America...
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†Orophodontidae Infraorder Megatheria Superfamily Megatherioidea Family †Megatheriidae: ground sloths Family Megalonychidae: two-toed sloths Superfamily Bradypodoidea...
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characteristic of the mylodonts, which clearly differs from that of the Megatheriidae and Megalonychidae with their two transverse raised ridges per tooth...
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