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    Nothrotheriidae. The best known species, N. shastensis, is also called the Shasta ground sloth. Nothrotheriops fossils were first collected by the University...
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    for being aquatic, and Nothrotheriops from North America. The last ground sloths in North America belonging to Nothrotheriops died so recently that their...
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    climates due to the extinction of the giant Shasta ground sloth (Nothrotheriops shastensis) 13,000 years ago; ground sloth dung has been found to contain...
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    Paramylodon harlani, with much rarer Megalonyx jeffersonii and Nothrotheriops shastensis) and the state fossil of California, the saber-toothed cat (Smilodon...
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    and a model of dental growth and wear pattern development in Nothrotheriops shastensis". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 10 (3): 372–389. Bibcode:1990JVPal...
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    America belonging to Nothrotheriidae, the Shasta ground sloth (Nothrotheriops shastensis), died so recently that their dried subfossilized dung has remained...
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    Nothrotheriops shastensis (Nothrotheriidae, La Brea)...
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    "Molecular coproscopy: dung and diet of the extinct ground sloth Nothrotheriops shastensis". Science. 281 (5375): 402–6. Bibcode:1998Sci...281..402P. doi:10...
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    This genus formerly included the species Nothrotheriops shastensis, which was later moved to Nothrotheriops. Analysis of δ13C values of N. maquinense...
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  • Paleontologists have suggested that Sid most closely resembles Nothrotheriops shastensis among ground sloths. Diego is a Smilodon found in all five of...
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