Eremotherium laurillardi Lund, 1842
Laurillard's ground sloth
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
The Americas (from southern USA to Brazil)
Biology & Ecology
It was a strictly terrestrial species (Santos et al., 2023).
Hypodigm
MCL 1700/02
MCL 1701/02
MCL 1702/02
MCL 7225
MCL 7229
MCL 7231
MCL 7233
MNRJ 2225
MNRJ 3858
MNP 44
MNP 46
USNM 18498
USNM 20867
ILSB s/n
AMNH 95742
F:AM s/n
ROM 40324
Source for the above is (Bargo et al. 2006).
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Lund, P. W. (1842). Blik paa Brasiliens Dyreverden for Sidste Jordomvaeltning. Fjerde Afhandling: Fortsaettelse af Pattedyrene. Detkongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter Naturvidenskabelige og Mathematisk Afhandlinger 9: 137-208.
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