-
These were the
first fossils of
Megalocnus outside of Cuba described, and were
named in 2000 as a new species,
Megalocnus zile. However, the
species has...
- They displa****
significant diversity in body size and lifestyle, with
Megalocnus being terrestrial and
probably weighing several hundred kilograms, while...
-
suggests an age of
between 2819 and 2660 BCE for the last
occurrence of
Megalocnus in Cuba. They
survived 5,000–6,000 years
longer in the
Caribbean than...
- Parocnus-sized to
Megalocnus-sized or larger. Its
relationships to
other Antillean sloths are not
immediately clear,
though the
genera Megalocnus and Parocnus...
-
genetic studies, as it
includes the
Caribbean sloths Neocnus,
Parocnus Megalocnus and
Arcatocnus which have been
placed in the
separate family Megalocnidae...
-
terrestrial ground sloth,
being the
second largest Caribbean sloth after Megalocnus, with the body m**** of the
various species of the
genus estimated at around...
- or capybara) and the
ground sloths Cubanocnus, Miocnus, Mesocnus, and
Megalocnus, some of
these sloths being roughly the size of a
black bear. It was probably...
-
similar glacial retreats were not ****ociated with
similar extinction rates.
Megalocnus and some
other Caribbean sloths survived until about 5,000
years ago,...
- †Megalocnidae †Acratocnus †Neocnus
Incertae sedis: †Paulocnus Subfamily ?? †
Megalocnus †Mesocnus
Family †Megalonychidae: †Paramiocnus
Incertae sedis: †Imagocnus...
- †Megalocnidae
Acratocnus Imagocnus Megalocnus Mesocnus Miocnus Neocnus Parocnus...
