Name - Megatherium americanum

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1224883 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Megatherium americanum Cuvier 1796

• Megatherium americanum Ameghino 1885

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Recent Publications

• An advanced shape-fitting algorithm applied to quadrupedal mammals: improving volumetric mass estimates.
• Campo Laborde: A Late Pleistocene giant ground sloth kill and butchering site in the Pampas.
• Could Eremotherium laurillardi (Lund, 1842) (Megatheriidae, Xenarthra) be an omnivore species?
• THE PALEOECOLOGY OF PLEISTOCENE GIANT MEGATHERIID SLOTHS: STABLE ISOTOPES ([delta]|1|3C, [delta]|1|8O) OF CO-OCCURRING MEGATHERIUM AND EREMOTHERIUM FROM SOUTHERN BRAZIL.
• PALEOPATHOLOGIES OF THE CLAVICLES OF THE GIANT GROUND SLOTH MEGATHERIUM AMERICANUM (MAMMALIA, XENARTHRA) FROM THE PLEISTOCENE OF THE PAMPEAN REGION (ARGENTINA).

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