Mylodontidae is a family of extinct South American and North American ground sloths within the suborder Folivora of order Pilosa, living from around 23...

well developed claws. In many ground sloth families (Megatheriidae, Mylodontidae, Scelidotheriidae and Nothrotheriidae), the hindfoot is inwardly rotated...

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...

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...

superfamily Mylodontoidea, related to the other extinct mylodontoid family, Mylodontidae, as well as to the living two-toed sloth family Choloepodidae. The only...

Gill 1872 Family Choloepodidae Pocock 1924 (two-toed sloths) Family †Mylodontidae Gill 1872 (mylodontid ground sloths) Family †Scelidotheriidae Ameghino...

molecular results to be closest to extinct ground sloths of the family Mylodontidae. A study of retrovirus and mitochondrial DNA suggests that C. didactylus...

and the other in eastern Peru, western Brazil, and northern Bolivia. †Mylodontidae: ground sloths that existed for about 23 million years and went extinct...

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...

Early Miocene to the Early Holocene epochs. The classification of the Mylodontidae is complex and often under discussion. The most widely accepted subfamilies...