Mylodontidae is a family of extinct South American and North American ground sloths within the suborder Folivora of order Pilosa, living from around 23...
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Ground sloth (section Mylodontidae)
well developed claws. In many ground sloth families (Megatheriidae, Mylodontidae, Scelidotheriidae and Nothrotheriidae), the hindfoot is inwardly rotated...
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in the Pampas and adjacent regions. The largest member of the family Mylodontidae, It is estimated to have weighed 4,100 kilograms (4.5 short tons). It...
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Mylodon is a genus of extinct ground sloth belonging to the family Mylodontidae, known from southern South America. With a total length of 3 to 4 m and...
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and the other in eastern Peru, western Brazil, and northern Bolivia. †Mylodontidae: ground sloths that existed for about 23 million years and went extinct...
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Gill 1872 Family Choloepodidae Pocock 1924 (two-toed sloths) Family †Mylodontidae Gill 1872 (mylodontid ground sloths) Family †Scelidotheriidae Ameghino...
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Paramylodon is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Mylodontidae endemic to North America during the Pliocene through Pleistocene epochs, living...
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ibseni from the Late Pleistocene of Brazil. It is a member of the family Mylodontidae. Although only known from fragmentary fossil remains, it has been proposed...
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superfamily Mylodontoidea, related to the other extinct mylodontoid family, Mylodontidae, as well as to the living two-toed sloth family Choloepodidae. The only...
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Early Miocene to the Early Holocene epochs. The classification of the Mylodontidae is complex and often under discussion. The most widely accepted subfamilies...
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