Lestodon is an extinct genus of giant ground sloth native to South America during the Pleistocene epoch. Its fossil remains have been primarily been found...

Xenarthra. They varied widely in size with the largest, belonging to genera Lestodon, Eremotherium and Megatherium, being around the size of elephants. Ground...

species of Lestodon. It can be distinguished from the latter in having a lower rostrum and the upper caniform which is more curved than in Lestodon, much like...

Glossotherium or Paramylodon, but was significantly smaller than the giant Lestodon. In terms of physique, it largely corresponded with the other large ground-living...

Antifer Dusicyon avus Glossotherium robustum Gomphotheridae indet. Hippidion Lestodon armatus Lundomys molitor Macrauchenia Morenelaphus Neolicaphrium Neuryurus...

the smaller (though still large) ground sloths Mylodon, Glossotherium Lestodon and Catonyx, the rhinoceros like ungulate Toxodon, the camel-like Macrauchenia...

ground sloths by the closely related Eremotherium and the distantly related Lestodon. The Chilean Pseudomegatherium species M. sundti was much smaller, with...

a long period of time. In the case of the likewise giant ground sloth Lestodon from central South America, experts also interpret mass accumulations of...

Mylodon, on the other hand, forms the basis of the advanced mylodonts and Lestodon clades with some forms from northern South America. In the same year, a...

† Lestodon armatus...