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Scelidodon

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Scelidodon
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene (Ensenadan)-Holocene
~0.781–0.009 Ma
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brown skeleton of a quadruped
Scelidodon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Pilosa
Family:
†Mylodontidae
Genus:
†Scelidodon

Species
  • S. chiliense Philippi 1893
  • S. tarijarensis

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]

Scelidodon tarijarensis front

References

  1. ^ Scelidodon at Fossilworks.org
  2. ^ Turvey, Sam (2009). Holocene extinctions. Oxford University Press. pp. 20–33, 42–50, 352. ISBN 0-19-953509-4.
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