Megatherium tarijense Gervais & Ameghino, 1880
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Bolivia & Peru
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
M. Coltorti, L. Abbazzi, M. P. Ferretti, P. Iacumin, F. Paredes-Rios, M. Pellegrini, P. Pieruccini, M. Rustioni, G. Tito and L. Rook. (2007). Last glacial mammals in South America: a new scenario from the Tarija basin (Bolivia). Naturwissenschaften 94:288-299.
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 G., Pujos F., Tito G. (2009). Systematic and taxonomic revision of the Pleistocene ground sloth Megatherium (Pseudomegatherium) tarijense (Xenarthra: Megatheriidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(4), 1244-1251.
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]
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