Scelidotherium
Extinct genus of ground sloths / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Scelidotherium is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Scelidotheriidae, endemic to South America during the Late Pleistocene epoch. It lived from 780,000 to 11,000 years ago, existing for approximately 0.67 million years.[1]
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S. leptocephalum Skeletal mount in the National Museum of Natural History (France) | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Pilosa |
Family: | †Scelidotheriidae |
Genus: | †Scelidotherium Owen, 1840 |
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