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Megalonychidae is an
extinct family of
sloths including the
extinct Megalonyx.
Megalonychids first appeared in the
early Oligocene,
about 35
million years (Ma) ago...
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multiple families. The
megalonychid ground sloths first appeared in the Late Eocene,
about 35 million
years ago, in Patagonia.
Megalonychids first reached North...
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Ortotherium ("upright beast") is a
genus of
megalonychid ground sloth from the Late
Miocene (Huayquerian SALMA,
around 9 to 6.8
million years ago) Ituzaingó...
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Nohochichak is an
extinct genus of
megalonychid ground sloth from the Late
Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) of the
Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The only known...
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Bradypodidae Gray 1821 (three-toed sloths)
Family †Megalonychidae
Gervais 1855 (
megalonychid ground sloths)
Family †Megatheriidae Gray 1821 (megatheriid
ground sloths)...
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giant ground sloth) (H)
Nothrotheriops (nothrotheriid
ground sloth) (H)
Megalonychid ground sloth spp.
Megalonyx (H)
Nohochichak (H)
Xibalbaonyx (H) Meizonyx...
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coexistence of M.
matthewi with
similar types of faunas,
namely Pilosa (
megalonychids),
Eulipotyphla (talpids),
Lagomorpha (leporids),
Carnivora (borophagine...
- MacPhee, R. D. E.; White,
Jennifer L.; Woods,
Charles A. (2000). "New
Megalonychid Sloths (Phyllophaga, Xenarthra) from the
Quaternary of Hispaniola". American...
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dispersal of
pilosans to the
Greater Antilles by the Oligocene, and that the
megalonychid Pliometanastes and the
mylodontid Thinobadistes were able to colonise...
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Eucholoeops (sometimes
incorrectly spelled Eucholaeops) is a
genus of
megalonychid ground sloth that
lived in
southernmost Argentina.
Fossils have been...
