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Mylodon listai Ameghino

Lista's ground sloth

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Neomylodon listai Ameghino

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Argentina

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Brambilla, Luciano and Haro, José Augusto. (2022). A comparative study of the postcranial skeleton of Patagonian and Pampean specimens of the Pleistocene giant sloth genus Mylodon Owen, 1839 (Xenarthra, Pilosa) and its implications. Historical Biology. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2132157

Lönnberg, E. (1896). On Some Remains of “Neomylodon Listai" Ameghino Brought Home by the Swedish Expedition to Tierra Del Fuego 1896. In Svenska Expeditionen Magellansländerna [1896]: 149-170.

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

Moreno, F. P. and Woodward, A. S. (1899). On a Portion of Mammalian Skin Named Neomylodon Listai, from a Cavern near Consuelo Cove, Last Hope Inlet, Patagonia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 5: 144-156. [Abstract]

Nitiu, Daniela Silvana et al. (2016). Survey of the state of conservation of the Mylodon listai (Xenarthra-Mylodontidae) skin fragment from the Pleistocene of Argentina kept at the Museum of La Plata (Argentina). Ge-conservación 1(10): 44-53. [automatic download]

Ridewood, W. G. (1901). On the structure of the hairs of Mylodon listai and other South American Edentates. Quarterly Journal Microscopical Science 2: 393-411.

Woodward, A. S. (1900). On Some Remains of Grypotherium (Neomylodon) Listai and Associated Mammals from a Cavern near Consuelo Cove, Last Hope Inlet, Patagonia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 5: 64-79. [Abstract]

http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/421/neomylodon

 

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