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Ground sloth

Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths in the mammalian superorder Xenarthra. They varied widely in size; the largest belonged to the genera Lestodon, Eremotherium and Megatherium, and were roughly the size of modern-day elephants. Ground sloths represent a paraphyletic group, as living tree sloths are thought to have evolved from ground…

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related to Megalonychidae · 22
Ground sloth → Alaska, An, Iowa, Isthmus, Late Eocene, Late Pleistocene Megalonyx, Megalonychids, Megalonyx, North America, North American, Ongoing, Panama, Patagonia, Pliocene, Remains, Some, Some West Indian, Tarkio Valley, The, This
related to Sources · 19
Ground sloth → Arts, Blancan, Cartelle, Cuvier, Florida, Irvingtonian, Iuliis, Journal, Lettres, Linnean Society, Madrid, Magasin, Mammalia, Megatheriidae, Notice, Paraquay, Sciences, Xenarthra, Zoological Journal
related to Evolution · 18
Ground sloth → Americas, At, Caribbean, Central, During, Great American Interchange, Ground, Late Miocene, Late Pleistocene, Megalonychid, Miocene, North America, Oligocene, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Prior, Puerto Rico, The
related to Extinction · 18
Ground sloth → Additionally, Although, Area, Arizona, BP, Caribbean, Lake Mead National Recreation, New Mexico, Nothrotheriops, Paramylodon, Radiocarbon, Rampart Cave, Steadman, The, The Shasta, Those, Trackways, United States
related to Nothrotheriidae · 18
Ground sloth → Aden Crater, Another Nothrotheriops, Doña Ana County, Kilbourne Hole, Megatheriidae, Megatherioidea, New Mexico, North America, Nothrotheriidae, Nothrotheriops, One, Recently, Shelter Cave, Smithsonian Museum, South American, Thalassocnus, The, Yale Peabody Museum
related to External links · 16
Ground sloth → Academy, Archaeology, Argentina, CA, Eremotherium, Florida, Georgia's Science Library, Ground, Have, Illinois State Museum, La Brea, Natural Sciences, Paleontology Hemet, Picture, University, Western Center
related to Megatheriidae · 16
Ground sloth → African, Eremotherium, Georges Cuvier, Megatheria, Megatheriids, Megatherium, North America, Nothrotheriidae, Oligocene, Panamanian, South America, The, Their, Unlike, While, With
related to Description · 15
Ground sloth → Caribbean, Eremotherium, Ground, In, Lestodon, Like, Megatheriidae, Megatherium, Mylodontidae, Nothrotheriidae, Scelidotheriidae, Some, The, There, These
related to Scelidotheriidae · 12
Ground sloth → Based, Catonyx, Choloepodidae, Chubutherium, Mylodontidae, Mylodontoidea, Pseudoprepotherium, Scelidotheriidae, Scelidotheriinae, Scelidotherium, The, Together
related to Mylodontidae · 11
Ground sloth → Argentina, However, Lestodon, Mylodon, Mylodontids, Mylodontoidea, Natural History, Subfossil, The, The American Museum, Theodore Roosevelt

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ground sloths sloth years america humans north species american late megalonyx extinction mammals ago living pleistocene would 000 south genera

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Ground slothrelated to DescriptionMegatherium0.60section
Ground slothrelated to DescriptionLestodon0.60section
Ground slothrelated to DescriptionEremotherium0.60section
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