Megalonychidae is an extinct family of sloths including the extinct Megalonyx. Megalonychids first appeared in the early Oligocene, about 35 million years...

morphological studies to be the only surviving members of the sloth family Megalonychidae, but have now been shown by molecular results to be closest to extinct...

the small island of Isla Escudo de Veraguas off the coast of Panama. †Megalonychidae: ground sloths that existed for about 35 million years and went extinct...

(Greek, "great-claw") is an extinct genus of ground sloths of the family Megalonychidae, native to North America. It evolved during the Pliocene Epoch and became...

Mammalia Order: Pilosa Suborder: Folivora Families †Megalocnidae (in part) †Megalonychidae †Megatheriidae †Nothrotheriidae †Mylodontidae †Scelidotheriidae...

Gray 1821 Family Bradypodidae Gray 1821 (three-toed sloths) Family †Megalonychidae Gervais 1855 (megalonychid ground sloths) Family †Megatheriidae Gray...

genus of the extinct family Megalonychidae within the suborder Folivora and the superorder Xenarthra. The Megalonychidae represent a very diverse group...

but are absent from Jamaica. While they were formerly placed in the Megalonychidae alongside two-toed sloths and ground sloths like Megalonyx, recent mitochondrial...

history of Megalonyx Jefferson, 1799 (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Pilosa, Megalonychidae)". ZooKeys (1195): 297–308. Bibcode:2024ZooK.1195..297B. doi:10.3897/zookeys...

history of Megalonyx Jefferson, 1799 (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Pilosa, Megalonychidae)". ZooKeys (1195): 297–308. Bibcode:2024ZooK.1195..297B. doi:10.3897/zookeys...