Meizonyx salvadorensis Webb & Perrigo 1985
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
El Salvador & Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Webb, S. D. and Perrigo, S. C. (1985). New megalonychid sloths from El Salvador. The evolution and ecology of armadillos, sloths, and vermilinguas, 113-120.
Other references:
McDonald, H. Gregory. (2021). Yukon to the Yucatan: Habitat partitioning in North American Late Pleistocene ground sloths (Xenarthra, Pilosa). Journal of Palaeosciences 70: 237-251.
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
McDonald, H. Gregory et al. (2020). First record of Meizonyx salvadorensis (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Pilosa) from the late Pleistocene of Mexico and its evolutionary implications. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 18(22): 1829-1851. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2020.1842816