Definition of Megatheriid. Meaning of Megatheriid. Synonyms of Megatheriid

- ground sloths that lived from approximately 23 mya—11,000 years ago. Megatheriids appeared during the Late Oligocene (Deseadan in the SALMA classification)...
- Gervais 1855 (megalonychid ground sloths) Family †Megatheriidae Gray 1821 (megatheriid ground sloths) Family †Nothrotheriidae Ameghino 1920 (nothrotheriid ground...
- (9.0 ft). While nothrotheriids were small compared to some of their megatheriid relatives, their claws provided an effective defense against predators...
- Megalonyx jeffersonii was appropriately named after Thomas Jefferson. The megatheriid ground sloths are relatives of the megalonychids; these two families...
- related to mylodontid sloths. The megalonychids plus nothrotheriid and megatheriid sloths, together with living three-toed sloths, make up the sloth superfamily...
- surface-level deposits in the Americas contained later mammals like the megatheriid ground sloth Megatherium and the mammutid proboscidean Mammut (later...
- of Panama. The latter development, about 3 million years ago, allowed megatheriids and nothrotheriids to also invade North America as part of the Great...
- partially recolonised) (C) All remaining ground sloth spp. Eremotherium (megatheriid giant ground sloth) (H) Nothrotheriops (nothrotheriid ground sloth) (H)...
- Family †Megalonychidae: megalonychid ground sloths Family †Megatheriidae: megatheriid ground sloths Family †Nothrotheriidae: nothrotheriid ground sloths and...
- mylodontids and three-toed sloths within Megatherioidea, close to Megalonyx, megatheriids and nothrotheriids. They make the previously recognized family Megalonychidae...