Oreomylodon wegneri Spillmann, 1931
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Glossotherium wegneri (Spillmann, 1931)
Conservation Status
Extinct
Distribution
Ecuador
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Spillmann, F. (1931). Die Säugetiere Ecuadors im Wandel der Zeit (I. Teil): Quito, Ecuador, Universidad Central, 112 pp.
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
De Iuliis, Gerardo; Boscaini, Alberto; Pujos, François; Mcafee, Robert K.; Cartelle, Cástor; Tsuji, Leonard J. S.; Rook, Lorenzo (2020). On the status of the giant mylodontine sloth Glossotherium wegneri (Spillmann, 1931) (Xenarthra, Folivora) from the late Pleistocene of Ecuador. Comptes Rendus Palevol. 19(12): 215-232.
De Iuliis, Gerardo, Cartelle, Cástor, McDonald, H. Gregory and Pujos, François. (2017). The mylodontine ground sloth Glossotherium tropicum from the Late Pleistocene of Ecuador and Peru. Papers in Palaeontology 3(4): 613-636.
Hoffstetter, R. (1952). Les mammifères pléistocènes de la République de l’Equateur. Mémoires Société Géologique Fr. 66: 1-391.
McAFEE, R. K. 2009. Reassessment of the cranial characters of Glossotherium and Paramylodon (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Mylodontidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155: 885-903.
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
Montellano-Ballesteros, Marisol and Román-Carrión, José Luis. (2011). Redescubrimiento de material tipo depositado en la colección del Museo de Historia Natural “Gustavo Orcés V.” del Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador. Boletíndela Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 63(3): 379-392.
Román-Carrión, José Luis; Brambilla, Luciano (2019). Comparative skull osteology of Oreomylodon wegneri (Xenarthra, Mylodontinae): defining the taxonomic status of the Ecuadorian endemic ground sloth. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39(4): e1674860. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2019.1674860
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