Name - Thalassocnus de Muizon & McDonald 1995

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1098452 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Thalassocnus

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Original Description Reference

• An aquatic sloth from the Pliocene of Peru. Nature (London), 375(6528), 18 May 1995: 224-227. [Zoological Record Volume 131]

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Recent Publications

• An aquatic sloth from the Pliocene of Peru.
• A reappraisal of the phylogeny of the Megatheria (Mammalia: Tardigrada), with an emphasis on the relationships of the Thalassocninae, the marine sloths.
• Unexpected record of the aquatic sloth Thalassocnus (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Folivora) in the upper Neogene of the Puna (Jujuy, Argentina).

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