Nohochichak xibalbahkah McDonald, Chatters & Gaudin, 2017
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: late Pleistocene
Distribution
Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
McDonald, H. Gregory, Chatters, James C. and Gaudin, Timothy J. (2017). A new genus of megalonychid ground sloth (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the late Pleistocene of Quintana Roo, Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2017.1307206
Other references:
Dantas, Mário A. T., Campbell, Sean Cody and McDonald, H. Gregory. (2023). Paleoecological inferences about the Late Quaternary giant ground sloths from the Americas. Research Square preprint. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2992768/v1
McDonald, H. Gregory. (2021). Yukon to the Yucatan: Habitat partitioning in North American Late Pleistocene ground sloths (Xenarthra, Pilosa). Journal of Palaeosciences 70: 237-251.
McDonald, H. Gregory. (2023). A Tale of Two Continents (and a Few Islands): Ecology and Distribution of Late Pleistocene Sloths. Land 12(6): 1192. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12061192