Glossotherium robustum (ground sloth)

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Subject:	Glossotherium robustum (ground sloth)
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Description
Glossotherium robustum (syn. Mylodon robustus) from A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere. New York: The Macmillan Company.
Date 1913
Source http://archive.org/stream/historyoflandmam00scot#page/602/mode/2up
Author
Robert Bruce Horsfall (1869–1948) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bruce_Horsfall
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Extm_Glossotherium_robustum_rbh-hlmwh01913-12.jpg

Glossotherium (literally "Tongue Beast") was a genus of ground sloth. It was a heavily built animal with a length of about 4 metres snout to tail-tip, a weight estimated at 1002.6 kg, and could potentially assume a slight bipedal stance. Order: Xenarthra, Family: Mylodontidae, Subfamily: Lestodontinae, Genus: Glossotherium.
Species:
Glossotherium robustum Owen 1842
Glossotherium chapadmalense

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