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Megatherium americanum (giant ground sloth)
| Subject: | Megatherium americanum (giant ground sloth)
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Description
English: Megatherium americanum
Date 25 August 2016
Author Nobu Tamura http://spinops.blogspot.com/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NobuTamura
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Megatherium_NT_small.jpg
Megatherium (from the Greek mega, meaning "great", and therion, "beast") was a genus of elephant-sized ground sloths endemic to South America that lived from the Early Pliocene through the end of the Pleistocene. Its size was exceeded by only a few other land mammals, including mammoths and Paraceratherium. Order: Pilosa, Family: Megatheriidae, Subtribe: Megatheriina, Genus: Megatherium, Type species: Megatherium americanum Cuvier, 1796. |
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