Hapalops longiceps (ground sloth), Propalaehoplophorus australis (glyptodont)

Query: Sloth

Result: 16^th of 158

Subject:	Hapalops longiceps (ground sloth), Propalaehoplophorus australis (glyptodont)
Poster:	Wiki Photos (---@---.---)

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Life restoration of Hapalops longiceps and Propalaehoplophorus australis

Description
Life restoration of Hapalops longiceps and Propalaeohoplophorus australis from W.B. Scott's A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere. New York: The Macmillan Company.
Date 1913
Source http://archive.org/stream/historyoflandmam00scot#page/606/mode/2up
Author Charles Robert Knight (1874–1953) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Robert_Knight
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hapalops.jpg

Hapalops is an extinct genus of ground sloth from the late Oligocene to Miocene of Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina in South America. Though related to the giant Megatherium, Hapalops was much smaller, measuring about 1 metre in length. Like most extinct sloths it is categorized as a ground sloth, but it is believed that the smaller size of Hapalops allowed it to engage in some climbing behaviors. Order: Xenarthra, Family: Megatheriidae, Subfamily: Schismotheriinae, Genus: Hapalops.
Species:
H. indifferens
H. longiceps
H. longipes
H. latus
H. cadens
H. congermanus
H. gallaicus

Sloth
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