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Megatheriidae is a
family of
extinct ground sloths that
lived from
approximately 23 mya—11,000
years ago.
Megatheriids appeared during the Late Oligocene...
- 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...
- 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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formations of Chile. Thal****ocninae has been
placed in both the
families Megatheriidae and Nothrotheriidae. Thal****ocnus
evolved several marine adaptations...
- 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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Family †Megalonychidae
Gervais 1855 (megalonychid
ground sloths)
Family †
Megatheriidae Gray 1821 (megatheriid
ground sloths)
Family †Nothrotheriidae Ameghino...
- (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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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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within the
tribe Nothrotheriini or
subfamily Nothrotheriinae within Megatheriidae, they are now
usually placed in
their own family, Nothrotheriidae. Nothrotheriids...
