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Eremotherium elenense Hoffstetter, 1952

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Ecuador

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Hoffstetter, R. (1952). Les mammiferes pleistocenes de la Republique de l’Equateur. Societe Geologique de France Memoirs, n.s., 31(66): 1-391.

 

Other references:

Toledo, Néstor, De Iuliis, Gerardo, Vizcaíno, Sergio F. and Bargo, M. Susana. (2017). The Concept of a Pedolateral Pes Revisited: The Giant Sloths Megatherium and Eremotherium (Xenarthra, Folivora, Megatheriinae) as a Case Study. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. [Abstract]

https://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/22766/eremotherium-elenense

 

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