Acratocnus odontrigonus Anthony, 1916:195
Lesser Puerto Rican ground sloth, Puerto Rican sloth
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Acratocnus major Anthony, 1918
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: c. 31,670 BC
Distribution
Puerto Rico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
UPRMP 2921 (partial right femora)
UPRMP 2982 (partial right femora)
UPRMP 2983 (left upper canine)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Anthony, H. E. (1916). Preliminary report on fossil mammals from Porto Rico, with descriptions of a new genus of ground sloth and two new genera of hystricomorph. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 27: 193-203.
Other references:
Alcover, Josep Antoni et al. (1998). Mammal Species of the World: Additional Data on Insular Mammals. American Museum Novitates 3248, 29 pp., 1 table.
Borroto-Páez, Rafael, Mancina, Carlos A., Woods, Charles A. and Kilpatrick, C. William. (2012). Checklist: Updated Checklist of Endemic Terrestrial Mammals of the West Indies, pp. 389-415. In: Borroto-Páez, Rafael, Woods, Charles A. and Sergile, F. E. (eds.). Terrestrial Mammals of the West Indies: Contributions. Gainesville, Florida: Florida Museum of Natural History and Wacahoota Press. 482 pp.
Gaudin, T. (2004). Phylogenetic relationships among sloths (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Tardigrada): the craniodental evidence. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 140: 255-305.
McFarlane, D. A. (1999). Late Quaternary fossil mammals and last occurrence dates from caves at Barahona, Puerto Rico. Caribb. J. Sci. 35(3-4): 238-248.
Vélez-Juarbe, Jorge and Miller, Thomas E. (2007). First Report of a Quaternary Crocodylian from a Cave Deposit in Northern Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science 43(2): 273-277. [a report of C. odontrigonus from northern Puerto Rico]
White, J. L. and MacPhee, R. D. E. (2001). The Sloths of the West Indies: A Systematic and Phylogenetic Review, pp. 201-236. In: Woods, C. A. and Sergile, F. E. Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press.
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