Pleistocene. It is best known for the elephant-sized type species Megatherium americanum, primarily known from the Pampas, but ranging southwards to northernmost...

Campo Laborde in the Pampas of Argentina, where an individual of Megatherium americanum was butchered at the edge of a swamp, dating to approximately 12...

inhabitants of the Pampas include the giant elephant-sized ground sloth Megatherium americanum, along side the smaller (though still large) ground sloths Mylodon...

1865.0002. S2CID 111224208. Owen, Professor (1855). "On the Megatherium (Megatherium Americanum, Cuvier and Blumenbach). Part II.--Vertebrae of the Trunk"...

Megatherium americanum, an extinct ground sloth species endemic to South America that lived from the Pliocene through Pleistocene Mezium americanum,...

million years ago, in South America. The group includes the heavily built Megatherium (given its name 'great beast' by Georges Cuvier) and Eremotherium. An...

many species of ground sloths ranging up to the size of elephants (like Megatherium) inhabited both North and South America during the Pleistocene Epoch...

teeth, which were only a quarter the size of Megatherium americanum, the greatest representative of Megatherium, and he believed that it was a tapir-sized...

associated with burned bones of the elephant-sized giant ground sloths Megatherium americanum and Lestodon the smaller ground sloths Scelidotherium, Glossotherium...

rectangular teeth that had a similar build to the giant ground sloth Megatherium americanum, whereas the later species had squarer and larger teeth. From earlier...