Megistonyx oreobios McDonald, Rincón & Gaudin, 2013
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Venezuela
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
McDonald, H. Gregory, Rincón, Ascanio D. and Gaudin, Timothy J. (2013). A new genus of megalonychid sloth (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the late Pleistocene (Lujanian) of Sierra de Perija, Zulia State, Venezuela. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(5): 1226-1238. [Abstract]
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. (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