Name - Megatheriidae

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:563926 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Megatheriidae Cuvier 1796

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Family

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Muscular Reconstruction and Functional Morphology of the Hind Limb of Santacrucian (Early Miocene) Sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora) of Patagonia.
• New mammal faunal data from Cerdas, Bolivia, a middle-latitude Neotropical site that chronicles the end of the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum in South America.
• Bone microstructures and fossilization in Pleistocene vertebrates from Rio Madeira Formation, Southwestern Amazon, Brazil.
• First fossil record of a Megatheriidae-Megatheriinae in he Early Hemphillian (Late Miocene) from San Gerardo de Limoncito, Curre Formation, Costa Rica.
• Paleoecological inferences about the Late Quaternary giant sloths.

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