| Scelidotheriidae Fossil range: Pleistocene .781–.011 Ma |
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Scelidotheriidae is a family of extinct mammals within the order of Pilosa and suborder Folivora. This family of ground sloths is related to the other families of extinct ground sloths, being the Megatheriidae, the Mylodontidae, the Nothrotheriidae, and the Orophodontidae. The only extant families of the suborder Folivora are the Bradypodidae and the Megalonychidae.
Together with the Mylodontidae and the engimatic Pseudoprepotherium, the scelidotheriids form the superfamily Mylodontoidea. Chubutherium is an ancestral and very plesiomorphic member of this family and does not belong to the main group of closely-related genera.
FAMILY †SCELIDOTHERIIDAE Ameghino, 1889
- Genus †Chubutherium (basal)
- Subfamily †Scelidotheriinae
- Genus †Scelidotheriops
- Genus †Analcitherium
- Genus †Nematherium
- Genus †Neonematherium
- Genus †Elassotherium
- Genus †Scelidotherium
- Genus †Catonyx
- Genus †Proscelidodon
Footnotes
References
- Cuvier, G. (1796): Notice sur le squellette d'une très grande espèce de quadrupède inconnue jusqu'à présent, trouvé au Paraquay, et déposé au cabinet d'histoire naturelle de Madrid. Magasin encyopédique, ou Journal des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts (1): 303-310; (2): 227-228.
- De Iuliis, G. & Cartelle, C. (1999): A new giant megatheriine ground sloth (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Megatheriidae) from the late Blancan to early Irvingtonian of Florida. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 127(4): 495-515.
- Harrington, C.R. (1993): Yukon Beringia Interpretive Center - Jefferson's Ground Sloth. Retrieved 2008-JAN-24.
- Hogan, C.M. (2008): Cueva del Milodon, Megalithic Portal. Retrieved 2008-APR-13
- Kurtén, Björn and Anderson, Elaine (1980): Pleistocene Mammals of North America. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 0-231-03733-3
- McKenna, Malcolm C. & Bell, Susan K. (1997): Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York. ISBN 0-231-11013-8
- Nowak, R.M. (1999): Walker's Mammals of the World (Vol. 2). Johns Hopkins University Press, London.
- White, J.L. (1993): Indicators of locomotor habits in Xenarthrans: Evidence for locomotor heterogeneity among fossil sloths. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 13(2): 230-242.
- White, J.L. & MacPhee, R.D.E. (2001): The sloths of the West Indies: a systematic and phylogenetic review. In: Woods, C.A. & Sergile, F.E. (eds.): Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives: 201-235.
- Woodward, A.S. (1900): On some remains of Grypotherium (Neomylodon) listai and associated mammals from a cavern near Consuelo Cove, Last Hope Inlet. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1900(5): 64-79.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Ground Sloth |
- Sloth World: An Online Sloth Bibliography.
- Picture and information about a ground sloth skeleton on display at the University of Georgia's Science Library.
- Academy of Natural Sciences ground sloth page.
- Illinois State Museum ground sloth page.
- Ground sloths at La Brea.
- Eremotherium in Florida.
- Have some ground sloths survived in Argentina?
- Ground sloths in general.
- Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology Hemet, CA
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