Valgipes bucklandi Lund, 1839
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Megalonyx bucklandi Lund, 1839; Platyonyx bucklandi Lund, 1842 [replaced name]; Valgipes deformis Gervais, 1874
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Brazil
Biology & Ecology
It was strictly terrestrial species (Santos et al., 2023).
Hypodigm
Media
References
do Amaral, Roberta Veronese et al. (2022). The first evidence of pituitary gland tumor in ground sloth Valgipes bucklandi Lund, 1839. The Anatomical Record 305(6): 1394-1401. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24786
Barbosa, Fernando H. de S. et al. (2019). Articular and vertebral lesions in the Pleistocene sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora) from the Brazilian Intertropical Region. Historical Biology 31(5): 544-558. [Abstract]
Dantas, Mário A. T. (2022). Estimating the body mass of the Late Pleistocene megafauna from the South America Intertropical Region and a new regression to estimate the body mass of extinct xenarthrans. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2022.103900
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
Dantas, Mário André Trindade, Cherkinsky, Alexander, Bocherens, Hervé, Drefahl, Morgana, Bernardes, Camila and França, Lucas de Melo. (2017). Isotopic paleoecology of the Pleistocene megamammals from the Brazilian Intertropical Region: Feeding ecology (δ13C), niche breadth and overlap. Quaternary Science Reviews 170: 152-163. [Abstract]
Dantas, Mário André Trindade and Santos, Adaiana M. A. (2022). Inferring the paleoecology of the Late Pleistocene giant ground sloths from the Brazilian Intertropical Region. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 117: 103899. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2022.103899
Fariña, R. A. et al. (2021). Arroyo del Vizcaíno, Uruguay: A fossil-rich 30-ka-old megafaunal locality with cut-marked bones. Proc. R. Soc. B. 281(1774), 1-6. http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2211
Hubbe, Alex, Hubbe, Mark and Neves, Walter Alves. (2009). New Late-Pleistocene Dates for the Extinct Megafauna of Lagoa Santa, Brazil. Current Research in the Pleistocene 26: 154-156.
Lemoine, Rhys Taylor, Buitenwerf, Robert, Faurby, Sören and Svenning, Jens-Christian. (2025). Phylogenetic Evidence Supports the Effect of Traits on Late-Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in the Context of Human Activity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 34(7): e70078. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70078 [Supporting Information: Data S1]
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
Omena, Érica Cavalcante et al. (2020). Late Pleistocene meso-megaherbivores from Brazilian Intertropical Region: isotopic diet (δ13C), niche differentiation, guilds and paleoenvironmental reconstruction (δ13C, δ18O). Historical Biology. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1789977
Santos, Adaiana Marta Andrade, Mcdonald, H. Gregory and Dantas, Mário André Trindade. (2023). Inferences of the ecological habits of extinct giant sloths from the Brazilian Intertropical Region. Journal of Quaternary Science. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3534
Varela, Luciano, Clavijo, Lucía, Tambusso, P. Sebastián and Fariña, Richard A. (2023). A window into a late Pleistocene megafauna community: Stable isotopes show niche partitioning among herbivorous taxa at the Arroyo del Vizcaíno site (Uruguay). Quaternary Science Reviews 317: 108286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108286
Varela, Luciano et al. (2021). 3D model related to the publication: Presence of the ground sloth Valgipes bucklandi (Xenarthra, Folivora, Scelidotheriinae) in southern Uruguay during the Late Pleistocene: Ecological and biogeographical implications. M3 Journal 7:147.
Varela, Luciano and Tambusso, P. Sebastián. (2023). 3D models related to the publication: 3D Finite Element Analysis and Geometric Morphometrics of Sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora) Mandibles Show Insights on the Dietary Specializations of Fossil Taxa. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2023.104445
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