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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Ground sloth (section Mylodontidae)
well developed claws. In many ground sloth families (Megatheriidae, Mylodontidae, Scelidotheriidae and Nothrotheriidae), the hindfoot is inwardly rotated...
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superfamily Mylodontoidea, related to the other extinct mylodontoid family, Mylodontidae, as well as to the living two-toed sloth family Choloepodidae. The only...
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Mylodon is a genus of extinct ground sloth belonging to the family Mylodontidae, known from southern South America. With a total length of 3 to 4 m and...
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in the Pampas and adjacent regions. The largest member of the family Mylodontidae, It is estimated to have weighed 4,100 kilograms (4.5 short tons). It...
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Gill 1872 Family Choloepodidae Pocock 1924 (two-toed sloths) Family †Mylodontidae Gill 1872 (mylodontid ground sloths) Family †Scelidotheriidae Ameghino...
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and the other in eastern Peru, western Brazil, and northern Bolivia. †Mylodontidae: ground sloths that existed for about 23 million years and went extinct...
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Paramylodon is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Mylodontidae endemic to North America during the Pliocene through Pleistocene epochs, living...
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accepted that the two genera are independent. Glossotherium belongs to the Mylodontidae, in which it is further subcategorized into the Mylodontinae, characterized...
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ibseni from the Late Pleistocene of Brazil. It is a member of the family Mylodontidae. Although only known from fragmentary fossil remains, it has been proposed...
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molecular results to be closest to extinct ground sloths of the family Mylodontidae. A study of retrovirus and mitochondrial DNA suggests that C. didactylus...
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List of mammals of North America (section Mylodontidae)
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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Early Miocene to the Early Holocene epochs. The classification of the Mylodontidae is complex and often under discussion. The most widely accepted subfamilies...
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"Urumaco beast") is an extinct genus of ground sloths of the family Mylodontidae. It lived from the Middle Miocene to the Early Pliocene of what is now...
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This list of North American animals extinct in the Holocene features animals known to have become extinct in the last 11,700 years on the North American...
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Pseudoprepotherium is an extinct genus of sloths of the family Mylodontidae. It was widespread across northern South America during the Early to Late Miocene...
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two-toed sloth or southern two-toed sloth, Choloepus didactylus Family †Mylodontidae: mylodontid ground sloths Suborder Vermilingua: anteaters Family Cyclopedidae:...
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sloth known from the Late Pleistocene of Brazil, belonging to the family Mylodontidae, containing the species Ocnotherium giganteum. It is a member of the...
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of the Mylodontidae, based on the work of Varela et al. 2018, showing the position of Bolivartherium. The following cladogram of the Mylodontidae is based...
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† Mylodontidae Choloepodidae (two-toed sloths)...
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which was subsequently demoted to subfamily Scelidotheriinae within Mylodontidae, then elevated back to full family status. It is related to the Pleistocene...
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Two-toed sloths (Choelopus) †Mylodontidae (Mylodon)...
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Megalonychidae spp. Ahytherium Australonyx Diabolotherium Megistonyx Mylodontidae spp. (including Scelidotheriinae) Catonyx Glossotherium Lestodon Mylodon...
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Mylodontidae Choloepodidae (two-toed sloths)...
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Two-toed sloths (Choelopus) †Mylodontidae (Mylodon)...
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Perea. 2002. The large Scelidothere Catonyx tarijensis (Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) from the Pleistocene of Uruguay. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology...
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Pseudoprepotherium, and Thinobadistes. Below is a phylogenetic tree of the Mylodontidae, based on the work of Rincón and McDonald 2020, showing the position...
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Thinobadistes is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Mylodontidae endemic to North America during the Miocene-Pliocene epochs (Hemphillian)...
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Simomylodon is an extinct genus of ground sloths from the family Mylodontidae. It lived from the Late Miocene to the Middle Pliocene of what is now Bolivia...
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