Scelidodon
Scelidodon | |
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Scelidodon | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Pilosa |
Family: | †Mylodontidae |
Genus: | †Scelidodon Ameghino 1881 |
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Scelidodon is an extinct genus of South American ground sloths. Its remains have been found in the Yupoí and Uspara Formations of Argentina, the Ulloma, Umala, Ñuapua and Tarija Formations of Bolivia, in Brazil, in Chile and in Peru.[1] The youngest fossils have been dated to as recently as 9000 B.P.[2]
References
- ↑ Scelidodon at Fossilworks.org
- ↑ Turvey, Sam (2009). Holocene extinctions. Oxford University Press. pp. 20–33, 42–50, 352. ISBN 0-19-953509-4.
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