Mesopotamocnus
Extinct genus of ground sloths / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mesopotamocnus is an extinct genus of megalonychid ground sloth that lived during the Late Miocene in what is now Argentina. Fossils have been found in the Ituzaingó Formation of Argentina.
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Mesopotamocnus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Pilosa |
Family: | †Megalonychidae |
Genus: | †Mesopotamocnus Brandoni et al., 2014 |
Species: | †M. brevirostrum |
Binomial name | |
†Mesopotamocnus brevirostrum (Bordas, 1942) | |
Synonyms | |
Ortotherium brevirostrum (Bordas, 1942) |
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