This mentioned taxonomy is an attempt to make an conclusive assignment from the different classifications of various scientists. Because the taxonomy may change due to the latest investigative methods and other findings, our map is a guide only.
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Corresponding author (Name, Year)
Flower, 1883
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Pilosa
German
Zahnarme
Alternative Name
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Anicanodonta
Ameghino, 1889
Ref.: F. Ameghino. 1889. Contribución al conocimiento de los mamíferos fósiles de la República Argentina Contribution to the knowledge of the fossil mammals of the Argentine Republic. Actas de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de la República Argentina en Córd
Lebenszeitraum in Million Jahren (Ma)
Start age: 38 Ma - End age: 0 Ma
0
0.0117
1.8
5.333
13.82
23.03
41.2
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H. G. McDonald, 2017 - A new genus of megalonychid ground sloth (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the late Pleistocene of Quintana Roo, Mexico - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (37), e1307-14 (journal article, English)
S. R. Stinnesbeck, 2017 - Xibalbaonyx oviceps, a new megalonychid ground sloth (Folivora, Xenarthra) from the Late Pleistocene of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, and its paleobiogeographic significance - Paläontologische Zeitschrift (91), 245-271 (journal article, English)
D. Brandoni, 2017 - Chronological implications of the nothrotheriid ‘Xyophorus’ (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the Collón Curá Formation (Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina) - Historical Biology (), - (journal article, English)
G. De Iuliis, 2017 - The mylodontine ground sloth Glossotherium tropicorum from the late Pleistocene of Ecuador and Peru - Papers in Palaeontology (3), 613-636 (journal article, English)
L. Kerber, 2016 - Late Quaternary caviomorph rodents (Rodentia: Hystricognathi) from the Serra da Capivara, northeastern Brazil, with description of a new taxon - Historical Biology (28), 439-458 (journal article, English)
F. Pujos, 2016 - A new nothrotheriid xenarthran from the early Pliocene of Pomata-Ayte (Bolivia): new insights into the caniniform–molariform transition in sloths - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (178), 679-712 (journal article, English)
D. Brandoni, 2016 - Megatherioidea (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Tardigrada) from the Pinturas Formation (Early Miocene), Santa Cruz Province (Argentina) and their chronological implications - Paläontologische Zeitschrift (90), 619-628 (journal article, English)
A. D. Rincón, 2016 - Baraguatherium takumara, Gen. et sp. nov., the earliest Mylodontoid Sloth (Early Miocene) from Northern South America - Journal of Mammalian Evolution (24), 179-191 (journal article, English)
A. D. Rincón, 2015 - Palaeothentid Marsupials of the Salla Beds of Bolivia (Late Oligocene): Two New Species and Insights into the Post-Eocene Radiation of Palaeothentoids - Journal of Mammalian Evolution (22), 455-471 (journal article, English)
A. D. Rincón, 2015 - A new enigmatic Late Miocene mylodontoid sloth from northern South America - Royal Society Open Science (2), 14025-13 (journal article, English)
A. L. Valerio, 2014 - Nueva evidencia de un estadio juvenil de Pliometanastes protistus y su relación con ?Pliometanastes galushai Hirschfeld & Webb, 1968 (Xernarthra, Megalonychidae) para el Mioceno Superior de Costa Rica - Revista Geológica de América Central (51), 159-163 (journal article, Spanish)
J. S. Zijlstra, 2014 - New rodents (Cricetidae) from the Neogene of Curaçao and Bonaire, Dutch Antilles - Palaeontology (57), 895-908 (journal article, English)
M. Taglioretti, 2014 - Presencia de Proscelidodon patrius (Xenarthra, Scelidotheriinae) en la Formación Chapadmalal (Plioceno Superior), mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Implicancias Bioestratigráficas - Ameghiniana (51), 420-427 (journal article, English)
F. Pujos, 2014 - Lakukullus anatisrostratus, gen. et sp. nov., a new massive nothrotheriid sloth (Xenarthra, Pilosa) from the middle Miocene of Bolivia - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (34), 1243-1248 (journal article, English)
G. De Iuliis, 2014 - Eucholoeops Ameghino, 1887 (Xenarthra, Tardigrada, Megalonychidae) from the Santa Cruz Formation, Argentine Patagonia: implications for the systematics of Santacrucian sloths - Geodiversitas (36), 209-255 (journal article, English)
D. Brandoni, 2014 - A new genus of Megalonychidae (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the late Miocene of Argentina - Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia (17), 33-42 (journal article, English)
L. E. Cruz, 2013 - Biostratigraphy and geochronology of the late Cenozoic of Córdoba Province (central Argentina) - Journal of South American Earth Sciences (42), 250-259 (journal article, English)
H. G. McDonald, 2013 - A New Genus of Megalonychid Sloth (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the Late Pleistocene (Lujanian) of Sierra De Perija, Zulia State, Venezuela - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (33), 1226-1238 (journal article, English)
A. A. Carlini, 2013 - A new genus and species of Planopinae (Xenarthra: Tardigrada) from the Miocene of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina - Zootaxa (3694), 565-578 (journal article, English)
D. Brandoni, 2013 - Los Tardigrada (Mammalia, Xenarthra) del Mioceno tardío de Entre Ríos Argentina - El Neógeno de la Mesopotamia argentina (14), 135-144 (journal article, Spanish)
A. Corona, 2013 - Catonyx cuvieri (Xenarthra, Mylodontidae, Scelidotheriinae) from the late Pleistocene of Uruguay, with comments regarding the systematics of the subfamily - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (33), 1214-1225 (journal article, English)
B. J. Shockey, 2011 - Grazing in a new late Oligocene Mylodontid Sloth and a Mylodontid radiation as a component of the Eocene-Oligocene faunal turnover and the early spread of grasslands/savannas in South America - Journal of Mammalian Evolution (18), 101-115 (journal article, English)
G. De Iuliis, 2011 - A new genus and species of Nothrotheriid sloth (Xenarthra, Tardigrada, Nothrotheriidae) from the Late Miocene (Huayquerian) of Peru - Palaeontology (54), 171-2005 (journal article, English)
D. Brandoni, 2011 - The Megalonychidae (Xenarthra, Tardigrada) from the late Miocene of Entre Ríos Province, Argentina, with remarks on their systematics and biogeography - Geobios (44), 33-44 (journal article, English)
F. Pujos, 2011 - Hiskatherium saintandrei, gen. et sp. nov.: An Unusual Sloth from the Santacrucian of Quebrada Honda (Bolivia) and an Overview of Middle Miocene, Small Megatherioids - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (31), 1131-1149 (journal article, English)
E. Guilherme, 2011 - A New Specimen of the Genus Octodontobradys (Orophodontidae, Octodontobradyinae) From the Late Miocene-Pliocene of the Southwestern Amazon Basin, Brazil - Anuário do Instituto de Geociências (34), 38-45 (journal article, English)
P. A. Saint-André, 2010 - Nouveaux paresseux terrestres (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) du Néogène de l’Altiplano bolivien - Geodiversitas (32), 255-306 (journal article, French)
E. Soibelzon, 2010 - Los Xenarhtra (Mammalia) del Ensenadense (Pleistoceno inferior a medio) de la Región Pampeana (Argentina) - Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológica (27), 449-469 (journal article, Spanish)
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A. G. Kramarz, 2010 - A new mammal fauna at the top of the Gran Barranca sequence and its biochronological significance - The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia (), 264-277 (book chapter, English)
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D. Brandoni, 2009 - Descripción del fémur de Protomegalonyx chasicoensis Scillato-Yané (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Megalonychidae) de la Formación Arroyo Chasicó (Mioceno tardío), provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Consideraciones sistemáticas sobre los perezosos de Edad Chasiq - Ameghiniana (46), 513-521 (journal article, Spanish)
R. K. McAfee, 2009 - Reassessment of the cranial characters of Glossotherium and Paramylodon (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Mylodontidae) - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (155), 885-903 (journal article, English)
A. R. Miño-Boilini, 2009 - First record of Scelidodon chiliense (Lydekker) (Phyllophaga, Scelidotheriinae) from the Lujanian stage (Late Pleistocene, early Holocene) of Argentina - Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie-Abhandlungen (253), 373-381 (journal article, English)
C. Cartelle, 2009 - Systematic revision of tropical Brazilian scelidotheriine sloths (Xenarthra, Mylodontoidea) - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (29), 555-566 (journal article, English)
G. De Iuliis, 2009 - Systematic and taxonomic revision of the Pleistocene ground sloth Megatherium (Pseudomegatherium) tarijense (Xenarthra: Megatheriidae) - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (29), 1244-1251 (journal article, English)
J. C. Fernicola, 2009 - The fossil mammals collected by Charles Darwin in South America during his travels on board the HMS Beagle - Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina (64), 147-159 (journal article, English)
D. A. Croft, 2009 - New Data on Miocene Neotropical Provinciality from Cerdas, Bolivia - Journal of Mammal Evolution (16), 175-198 (journal article, English)
A. R. Miño-Boilini, 2009 - The Scelidotheriinae Ameghino, 1904 (Phyllophaga, Xenarthra) from the Ensenadan–Lujanian Stage/Ages (Early Pleistocene to Early-Middle Pleistocene–Early Holocene) of Argentina - Quarternary International (210), 93-101 (journal article, English)
D. Brandoni, 2009 - On the presence of Pyramiodontherium (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Megatheriidae) in the late Miocene of northeastern Argentina and its biogeographical implications - Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia (115), 111-123 (journal article, English)
G. De Iuliis, 2009 - A new ground sloth (Mammalia: Xenarthra) from the Quaternary of Brazil - Comptes Rendus Palevol (8), 705-715 (journal article, English)
G. De Iuliis, 2008 - New remains of Megathericulus patagonicus Ameghino 1904 (Xenarthra, Megatheriidae): Information on primitives features of Megatheriines - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (28), 181-196 (journal article, English)
A. A. Carlini, 2008 - Additions to the knowledge of Urumaquia robusta (Xenarthra, Phyllophaga, Megatheriidae) from the Urumaco Formation (Late Miocene), Estado Falc6n, Venezuela - Palaeontologische Zeitschrift (82), 153-162 (journal article, English)
D. Brandoni, 2008 - Nuevos materiales de Ortotheriinae (Xenarthra, Tardigrada, Megalonychidae) procedentes del "Mesopotamiense" (Mioceno tardio) de Entre Rios - Instituto Superior de Correlacion Geologica (INSUGEO) Serie Miscelanea (17), 11-20 (journal article, Spanish)
H. G. McDonald, 2008 - Skeletal anatomy and the fossil history of the Vermilingua - The Biology of the Xenarthra (), 64-78 (book chapter, English)
C. Cartelle, 2008 - A new species of Megalonychidae (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the Quaternary of Poço Azul (Bahia, Brazil) - Comptes Rendus Palevol (7), 335-346 (journal article, English)
M. A. Reguero, 2007 - Biochronology and biostratigraphy of the Uquía Formation (Pliocene- early Pleistocene, NW Argentina) and its significance in the Great American Biotic Interchange - Journal of South American Earth Sciences (23), 1-16 (journal article, English)
F. Pujos, 2007 - A peculiar climbing Megalonychidae from the Pleistocene of Peru and its implication for sloth history - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (149), 179-235 (journal article, English)
M. Coltorti, 2007 - Last glacial mammals in South America: a new scenario from the Tarija basin (Bolivia) - Naturwissenschaften (94), 288-299 (journal article, English)
H. G. McDonald, 2007 - Xenarthra - Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America (2), 147-160 (book/book chapter, English)
A. Rinderknecht, 2007 - A New Mylodontinae (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the Camacho Formation (Late Miocene), Uruguay - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (27), 744-747 (journal article, English)
D. Brandoni, 2007 - Los Megatheriinae (Xenarthra, Tardigrada) del Terciario de Entre Ríos, Argentina: aspectos taxonómicos y sistemáticos - Ameghiniana (44), 427-437 (journal article, Spanish)
P. Smith, 2007 - Giant anteater Myrmecophaga tridactyla Linnaeus, 1758 - FAUNA Paraguay Handbook of the Mammals of Paraguay (2), 1-18 (book/book chapter, English)
D. Brandoni, 2007 - A new genus for the Megatheriinae (Xenarthra, Tardigrada, Megatheriidae) from the Arroyo Chasicó Formation (Upper Miocene) of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen (244), 53-64 (journal article, English)
D. Brandoni, 2006 - A review of Pliomegatherium Kraglievich, 1930 (Xenarthra: Phyllophaga: Megatheriidae) - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. Monatshefte (4), 212-224 (journal article, English)
A. A. Carlini, 2006 - New Mylodontoidea (Xenarthra, Phyllophaga) from the Middle Miocene-Pliocene of Venezuela - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology (4), 255-267 (journal article, English)
L. O. Salles, 2006 - Quaternary mammals from Serra do Bodoquena, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil - Boletim do Museu Nacional (521), 1-12 (journal article, English)
G. de Iuliis, 2006 - On the taxonomic status of Megatherium sundti Philippi, 1893 (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Megatheriidae) - Ameghiniana (43), 161-169 (journal article, English)
A. A. Carlini, 2006 - First Megatheriines (Xenarthra, Phyllophaga, Megatheriidae) from the Urumaco (late Miocene) and Codore (Pliocene) Formations, Estado Falcón, Venezuela - Journal of Systematic Paleontology (4), 269-278 (journal article, English)
F. Pujos, 2006 - Megatherium celendinense sp. nov. from the pleistocene of the Peruvian Andes and the phylogenetic relationships of Megatheriines - Palaeontology (49), 285-306 (journal article, English)
A. A. Carlini, 2005 - Los Xenarthra de Gran Barranca: Más de 20 Ma de historia - Actas del XVI Congreso Geológico Argentino. La Plata 2005 (), - (journal article, Spanish)
C. M. Deschamps, 2005 - Late Cenozoic mammal bio-chronostratigraphy in southwestern Buenos Aires Province, Argentina - Ameghiniana (42), 733-750 (journal article, English)
F. R. Negri, 2004 - Urumacotheriinae, Nova Subfamília de Mylodontidae (Mammalia, Tardigrada) do Mioceno Superior-Plioceno, América do Sul - Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia (7), 281-288 (journal article, English)
A. E. Zurita, 2004 - Mamíferos extintos del Cuaternario de la Provincia del Chaco (Argentina) y su relación con aquéllos del este de la región pampeana y de Chile - Revista geológica de Chile (31), 65-87 (journal article, Spanish)
G. De Iuliis, 2004 - The Toro Negro Megatheriinae (Mammalia, Xenarthra: A new species of Pyramiodontherium and a review of Plesiomegatherium - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (24), 214-227 (journal article, English)
O. J. Linares, 2004 - Nuevos restos del género Lestodon Gervais, 1855 (Xenarthra, Tardigrada, Mylodontidae), del Mioceno Tardío y Plioceno Temprano de Urumaco (Venezuela), con descripción de dos nuevas especies - Paleobiología Neotropical (2), 1-14 (journal article, English)
H. G. McDonald, 2004 - Late Pleistocene mylodont sloth Paramylodon harlani (Mammalia: Xenarthra) from Arizona - Southwestern Naturalist (49), 229-238 (journal article, English)
C. Muizon, 2004 - The youngest species of the aquatic sloth Thalassocnus and a reassesment of the relationships of the nothrothere sloths (Mammalia: Xenarthra) - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (24), 387-397 (journal article, English)
F. Pujos, 2004 - A new species of Megatherium (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Megatheriidae) from the Pleistocene of Sacaco and Tres Ventanas, Peru - Palaeontology (47), 579-604 (journal article, English)
A. A. Carlini, 2004 - The oldest Megalonychidae (Xenarthra: Tardigrada); phylogenetic relationships and an emended diagnosis of the family - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen (233), 423-443 (journal article, English)
R. D. E. MacPhee, 2003 - Domo de Zaza, an Early Miocene vertebrate locality in south-central Cuba, with notes on the tectonic evolution of Puerto Rico and the Mona Passage - American Museum Novitates (3394), 1-42 (journal article, English)
C. Muizon, 2003 - A new early species of the aquatic sloth Thalassocnus (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the late Miocene of Peru - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (23), 886-894 (journal article, English)
A. A. Carlini, 2002 - Una nueva especie de megaterino (Xenarthra, Megatheriidae) del Mioceno Tardío-Plioceno de Catamarca, Argentina - Ameghiniana (39), 367-377 (journal article, Spanish)
J. Alroy, 2002 - Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals - (), - (unpublished, English)
H. G. McDonald, 2002 - The large Scelidothere Catonyx tarijensis (Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) from the Pleistocene of Uruguay - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (22), 677-683 (journal article, English)
H. G. McDonald, 2002 - The cranial anatomy of Thalassocnus (Xenarthra, Mammalia), a derived nothrothere from the Neogene of the Pisco Formation (Peru) - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (22), 349-365 (journal article, English)
F. Delsuc, 2001 - The evolution of armadillos, anteaters and sloths depicted by nuclear and mitochondrial phylogenies: implications for the status of the enigmatic fossil Eurotamandua - Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (268), 1605-1615 (journal article, English)
P. A. Saint-Andre, 2001 - The smallest and most ancient representative of the genus Megatherium Cuvier, 1796 (Xenarthra, Tardigrada, Megatheriidae), from the Pliocene of the Bolivian Altiplano - Geodiversitas (23), 625-645 (journal article, English)
C. Villarroel, 2000 - Un nuevo Mylodontinae (Xenarthra, Tardigrada) en la fauna de La Venta, Mioceno de Colombia: El estado actual de la familia Orophodontidae - Revista Acad. Colombia Cienc (24), 117-127 (journal article, English)
F. Pujos, 2000 - Scelidodon Chiliensis (Xenarthra, Mammalia) du Pléistocène terminal de Pampa de los Fósiles - Quaternaire (11), 197-206 (journal article, Spanish)
A. L. Cione, 2000 - Miocene vertebrates from Entre Rios province, eastern Argentina - Serie Correlacion Geologica (14), 191-237 (journal article, English)
P. J. Adam, 1999 - Choloepus didactylus - Mammalian Species (621), 1-8 (journal article, English)
G. De Iuliis, 1999 - A new giant megatheriine ground sloth (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Megatheriidae) from the late Blancan to early Irvingtonian of Florida - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (127), 495-515 (journal article, English)
G. I. Esteban, 1999 - Nuevo registro de Sphenotherus (Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) en el Terciario superior del valle de El Cajon (provincia de Catamarca, Argentina). Revision sistematica del genero - Ameghiniana (36), 317-321 (journal article, Spanish)
T. J. Gaudin, 1998 - The phylogeny of the Myrmecophagidae (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Vermilingua) and the relationship of Eurotamandua to the Vermilingua - Journal of Mammalian Evolution (5), 237-265 (journal article, English)
G. J. Scillato-Yané, 1998 - Nuevos Xenarthra del Friasense (Mioceno medio) de Argentina - Studia geologica salmanticensia (34), 43-67 (journal article, Spanish)
C. Villarroel, 1998 - Los Nothrotheriinae (Megatheriidae, Gravigrada) del Mioceno de La Venta (Colombia). Descripcion de Huilabradys magdaleniensis, nuevos genero y especie - Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias (22), 497-506 (journal article, Spanish)
R. C. Hulbert, Jr., 1998 - Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) vertebrate faunas from coastal Georgia - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (18), 412-429 (journal article, English)
H. G. McDonald, 1997 - Xenarthrans: Pilosans - Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics. The Miocene fauna of La Venta, Colombia (), 233-245 (book chapter, English)
G. De Iuliis, 1997 - Eremotherium sefvei nov. sp. (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Megatheriidae) from the Pleistocene of Ulloma, Bolivia - Geobios (30), 453-461 (journal article, English)
M. C. McKenna, 1997 - - Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level (), 1-640 (book, English)
P.-A. Saint-André, 1996 - Deux nouveaux édentés (Mammalia, Xenarthra) Trachycalyptoides achirense nov gen et nov sp (Glyptodontidae, Sclerocalyptinae) et Xyophorus villarroeli nov sp (Megatheriidae, Nothrotheriinae) du Huayquérien (Miocène supérieur) de l'Altiplano bolivien - Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Section C: Sciences de la Terre: Paleontologie, Geologie, Mineralogie (4), 79-106 (journal article, French)
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C. Cartelle, 1995 - Eremotherium laurillardi: the Panamerican late Pleistocene megatheriid sloth - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (15), 830-841 (journal article, )
T. J. Gaudin, 1995 - The ear region of edentates and the phylogeny of Tardigrada (Mammalia, Xenarthra) - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (15), 672-705 (journal article, English)
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J. C. R. Santos, 1993 - Octodontobradyinae, uma nova subfamilia de Orophodontidae (Edentata, Tardigrada) do Mioceno superior-Plioceno do estado do Amazonas, Brasil - Ameghiniana (30), 255-264 (journal article, Spanish)
B. J. MacFadden, 1993 - Magnetic polarity stratigraphy of Inchasi: a Pliocene mammal-bearing locality from the Bolivian Andes deposited just before the Great American Interchange - Earth and Planetary Science Letters (114), 229-241 (journal article, English)
L. G. Marshall, 1991 - The Eocene to Pleistocene vertebrates of Bolivia and their stratigraphic context: a review - Fósiles y Facies de Bolivia - Vol. 1 Vertebrados (Revista Ténica de YPFB) (12), 631-652 (book/book chapter, English)
S. D. Webb, 1989 - Osteology and relationships of Thinobadistes segnis, the first mylodont sloth in North America - Advances in Neotropical Mammalogy (), 469-532 (book/book chapter, English)
G. I. Esteban, 1988 - Un nuevo Mylodontinae (Edentata, Tardigrada) del Cuaternario del noroeste Argentino (Las Estancias, Catamarca) - Ameghiniana (25), 115-122 (journal article, Spanish)
D. Perea, 1988 - Dos Nothrotheriinae (Tardigrada, Megatheriidae) del Mio-Plioceno de Uruguay - Ameghiniana (25), 381-288 (journal article, Spanish)
R. L. Carroll, 1988 - - Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution (), 1-698 (compendium, English)
G. J. Scillato-Yané, 1987 - Nuevo Nothrotheriinae (Edentata, Tardigrada) de Edad Chasiquense (Mioceno tardío) del Sur de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Ameghiniana (24), 211-215 (journal article, Spanish)
G. F. Engelmann, 1987 - A new Deseadan sloth (Mammalia: Xenarthra) from Salla, Bolivia, and its implications from the primitive condition of the dentition in edentates - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (7), 217-223 (journal article, )
J. H. Hutchison, 1987 - Scapanus from California - Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (386), 1-15 (journal article, English)
C. D. Frailey, 1986 - Late Miocene and Holocene mammals, exclusive of the Notoungulata, of the Rio Acre Region, western Amazonia - Contributions in Science (374), 1-46 (journal article, English)
S. E. Hirschfeld, 1985 - Ground sloths from the Friasian La Venta fauna, with additions to the pre-Frasian Coyaima fauna of Colombia, South America - University of California Publications in Geological Sciences (128), 1-91 (journal article, English)
S. D. Webb, 1985 - New megalonychid sloths from El Salvador - The evolution and ecology of armadillos, sloths, and vermilinguas (), 113-120 (book chapter, English)
G. J. Scillato-Yané, 1981 - Nuevo Mylodontinae (Edentata, Tardigrada) del "Mesopotamiense" (Mioceno tardío- Plioceno) de la Provincia de Entre Ríos - Ameghiniana (18), 29-34 (journal article, Spanish)
G. J. Scillato-Yané, 1980 - Nuevo Megalonychidae (Edentata, Tardigrada) del "Mesopotamiense" (Mioceno tardío-Plioceno) de la Provincia de Entre Ríos - Ameghiniana (17), 193-199 (journal article, Spanish)
B. Kurten, 1980 - - Pleistocene mammals of North America (), 1-442 (book, English)
E. P. Gustafson, 1978 - The Vertebrate Faunas of the Pliocene Ringold Formation, South-Central Washington - Bulletin of the Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon (23), 1-62 (journal article, English)
G. J. Scillato-Yané, 1976 - El más antiguo Mylodontinae (Edentata, Tardigrada) conocido: Glossotheriopsis pascuali n. gen., n. sp., del "Colloncurense" (Mioceno superior) de la Provincia de Río Negro (Argentina) - Ameghiniana (13), 333-334 (journal article, Spanish)
S. E. Hirschfeld, 1976 - A New Fossil Anteater (Edentata, Mammalia) from Colombia, S.A. and Evolution of the Vermilingua - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (50), 419-432 (journal article, English)
E. L. Lundelius, Jr., 1972 - Fossil Vertebrates from the Late Pleistocene Ingleside Fauna, San Patricio County, Texas - Bureau of Economic Geology Report of Investigations (77), 1-74 (journal article, English)
R. Pascual, 1971 - Mesa redonda: Evolución de las comunidades de los Vertebrados del Terciario argentino. Los aspectos paleozoogeográficos y paleoclimáticos - Ameghiniana (7), 372-412 (journal article, Spanish)
A. G. Edmund, 1970 - Essodontherium gervaise es un sinonimo de Megatherium americanum Cuvier (Xenarthra, Mammalia) - Ameghiniana (7), 317-328 (journal article, Spanish)
S. E. Hirschfeld, 1968 - Plio-Pleistocene Megalonychid Sloths of North America - Bulletin of the Florida State Museum (12), - (journal article, English)
E. Ortega, 1967 - Descripcion de los restos de un Scelidotheriinae (Edentata, Mylodontidae) de edad Huayqueriense. Algunas consideraciones en torno a la filogenia de los Scelidotheriinae - Ameghiniana (5), 109-120 (journal article, Spanish)
R. Pascual, 1966 - IV. Vertebrata - Paleontografia bonaerense (), 1-424 (book chapter, Spanish)
C. L. Gazin, 1957 - A skull of the Bridger Middle Eocene creodont, Patriofelis ulta Leidy - Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (134), 1-20 (journal article, English)
C. Paula Couto, 1956 - Mamiferos fosseis do Cenozoico da Amazonia - Conselho Nacional de Pesquisas Boletim (3), 1-121 (journal article, Portugese)
R. Hoffstetter, 1954 - Les gravigrades (Edentes Xenarthres) des cavernes de Lagoa Santa (Minas Gerais, Bresil) - Annalles des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie (11), 741-764 (journal article, French)
R. Hoffstetter, 1952 - Les Mammiferes Pleistocenes de la Republique de L´Equateur - Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France (66), 1-391 (journal article, French)
D. E. Savage, 1951 - Report on Fossil Vertebrates from the Upper Magdalena Valley, Colombia - Science (114), 186-187 (journal article, English)
G. G. Simpson, 1941 - A Miocene Sloth from Southern Chile - American Museum Novitates (1156), - (journal article, English)
T. E. White, 1941 - Addition to the fauna of the Florida Pliocene - Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club (18), 67-70 (journal article, English)
E. H. Sellards, 1941 - Final report covering the period from March 4, 1939 ro September 30, 1941 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas - A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project (), iii-85 (serial monograph, English)
G. Crile, 1940 - A record of the body weight and certain organ and gland weights of 3690 animals - Ohio Journal of Science (40), 219-259 (journal article, English)
A. Cabrera, 1939 - Sobre Vertebrados Fósiles del Plioceno de Adolfo Alsina - Revista del Museo de La Plata (2), 3-35 (journal article, Spanish)
C. L. Gazin, 1935 - Gravigrade Sloth Remains from the Late Pliocene and Pleistocene of Idaho - Journal of Mammalogy (16), - (journal article, English)
W. D. Matthew, 1931 - Genera and new species of ground sloths from the Pleistocene of Cuba - American Museum Novitates (511), 1-5 (journal article, English)
A. Cabrera, 1928 - Sobre algunos megaterios pliocenos - Revista del Museo de La Plata (31), 339-352 (journal article, Spanish)
C. O. Schneider, 1926 - Lista preliminar de los mamiferos fosiles de Chile - Revista Chilena de Historia Natural (30), 144-156 (journal article, Spanish)
W. D. Matthew, 1924 - Third contribution to the Snake Creek Fauna - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (50), 59-210 (journal article, English)
L. Kraglievich, 1923 - Un nuevo representante de la subfamilia "Ortotherinae" en la Formación Entrerriana de las Barrancas del Río Paraná "Torcellia paranense" n. gen. n. sp. - Comunicaciones de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires (2), 1-8 (journal article, Spanish)
L. Kraglievich, 1923 - Un probable descendiente directo del género "Hapalops" del Oligoceno de la Patagonia en la fauna Miocena de Entre Ríos "Neohapalops rothi" n. gen. n. sp - Comunicaciones del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires (2), 9-16 (journal article, Spanish)
L. Kraglievich, 1922 - Eumylodon incertus n. sp - Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires (31), 451-456 (journal article, Spanish)
L. Kraglievich, 1922 - Amphiocnus paranense n. gen. n. sp. Un probable precursor del "Megalocnus" de la isla de Cuba en la Formación Entrerriana - Physis (6), 73-87 (journal article, Spanish)
M. Boule, 1920 - Mammiféres fossiles de Tarija - (), - (book, French)
C. Stock, 1918 - The Pleistocene fauna of Hawver Cave - University of California Publications Bulletin of the Department of Geology (10), 461-515 (journal article, English)
J. A. Allen, 1916 - New South American mammals - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (35), 83-87 (journal article, English)
C. Stock, 1914 - Skull and dentition of the mylodon sloths of Rancho La Brea - University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology (8), 319-334 (journal article, English)
C. Rovereto, 1914 - Los Estratos Araucanos y sus fósiles - Anales del Museo de Historia Natural de Buenos Aire (25), 1-24 (book, Spanish)
J. A. Allen, 1913 - New mammals from Colombia and Ecuador - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (32), 469-484 (journal article, English)
O. Thomas, 1911 - The Mammals of the Tenth Edition of Linnaeus; an Attempt to fix the Types of the Genera and the exact Bases and Localities of the Species - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (81), 120-158 (journal article, English)
S. Roth, 1911 - Un nuevo género de la familia Megatheridae - Revista del Museo de la Plata (18), 1-21 (journal article, Spanish)
W. J. Sinclair, 1905 - New Mammalia from the Quaternary caves of California - University of California Publication Bulletin of the Department of Geology (4), 145-161 (journal article, English)
F. Ameghino, 1904 - Nuevas especies de mamíferos, cretáceos y terciarios de la República Argentina [New species of mammals, Cretaceous and Tertiarty, from the Argentine Republic] - Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina (56–58), 1-142 (journal article, Spanish)
F. Ameghino, 1902 - Première contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique des couches à Colpodon [First contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Colopdon Beds] - Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Córdoba (17), 71-141 (journal article, French)
O. P. Hay, 1902 - - Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey (179), 1-868 (serial monograph, English)
F. Ameghino, 1897 - Mammiféres crétacés de l’Argentine (Deuxième contribution à la connaissance de la fauna mammalogique de couches à Pyrotherium) [Cretaceous mammals of Argentina (second contribution to the knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Pyrotherium Beds)] - Boletin Instituto Geografico Argentino (18), 406-521 (journal article, French)
E. D. Cope, 1895 - On Some Plistocene Mammalia from Petite Anse, LA - Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (34), 458-468 (journal article, English)
F. Ameghino, 1894 - Sur les oiseaux fossiles de Patagonie; et la faune mammalogique des couches à Pyrotherium - Boletin del Instituto Geographico Argentino (15), 501-660 (journal article, French)
F. Ameghino, 1894 - Enumeration synoptique des especes de mammifères fossiles des formations éocènes de Patagonie - Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Cordoba (13), 259-452 (journal article, French)
R. Lydekker, 1894 - Contributions to a knowledge of the fossil vertebrates of Argentina. II. 2. The extinct edentates of Argentina - Anales del Museo de La Plata. Paleontología Argentina (3), 1-118 (journal article, English)
J. Lindahl, 1892 - Description of a skull of Megalonyx leidyi, n. sp. - Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series (17), 1-10 (journal article, English)
F. Ameghino, 1891 - Nuevos restos de mamíferos fósiles descubiertos por Carlos Ameghino en el Eoceno inferior de la Patagonia austral. – Especies nuevas, adiciones y correcciones [New remains of fossil mammals discovered by Carlos Ameghino in the lower Eocene of southern Pat - Revista Argentina de Historia Natural (1), 289-328 (journal article, Spanish)
F. Ameghino, 1889 - Contribución al conocimiento de los mamíferos fósiles de la República Argentina [Contribution to the knowledge of the fossil mammals of the Argentine Republic] - Actas de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de la República Argentina en Córdoba (6), xxxii-1027 (book/book chapter, Spanish)
R. Lydekker, 1889 - Part III - Palaeozoology. Vertebrata - Manual of palaeontology for the use of students with a general introduction on the principles of palaeontology. Volume II. 3rd edn. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London (), 600 p- (book/book chapter, English)
E. D. Cope, 1889 - The Edentata of North America - American Naturalist (23), 657-664 (journal article, English)
F. P. Moreno, 1888 - Informe preliminar de los progresos del Museo La Plata, durante el primer semestre de 1888 - Boletim del Museo de La Plata (II), 1-35 (journal article, English)
R. Lydekker, 1886 - Description of three species of Scelidotherium - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (1886), 491-498 (journal article, English)
F. Ameghino, 1885 - Nuevos restos de mamíferos fósiles Oligocenos recogidos por el Profesor Pedro Scalabrini y pertenecientes al Museo Provincial de la ciudad del Parana [New remains of Oligocene fossil mammals collected by Professor Pedro Scalabrini and belonging to the Pro - Boletín de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias (8), 1-205 (journal article, Spanish)
C. G. Giebel, 1883 - Säugethiere: Mammalia - Dr. H. G. Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs, wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild (6), 1-576 (serial monograph, English)
F. Ameghino, 1883 - Sobre una nueva colección de mamíferos fósiles recogidos por el Profesor Scalabrini en Las Barrancas del Paraña [On a collection of fossil mammals collected by Professor Scalabrini in Las Barrancas of Paraña] - Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias (5), 55-104 (journal article, Spanish)
E. D. Cope, 1878 - Descriptions of new extinct Vertebrata from the Upper Tertiary and Dakota Formations - Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (4), 379-396 (journal article, English)
O. C. Marsh, 1874 - Notice of new Tertiary mammals. III - American Journal of Science (7), 531-534 (journal article, English)
J. Leidy, 1873 - Part I. Contributions to the extinct vertebrate fauna of the western territories - Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories (1), 1-358 (serial monograph, English)
J. Leidy, 1868 - Notice of Some Vertebrate Remains from Harden County, Texas - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (20), 174-176 (journal article, English)
J. Leidy, 1853 - [Dr. Leidy called the attention of the members to several fossil teeth] - Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (6), 241- (journal article, English)
C.-L. Bonaparte, 1850 - - Conspectus Systematis Mastozoologiae. Editio Altera Reformata [Survey of the system of mammals. Second revised edition]. E. J. Brill, Leyden (), 1- (serial monograph, other)
J. E. Gray, 1825 - An outline of an attempt at the disposition of Mammalia into Tribes and Families, with a list of genera apparently appertaining to each Tribe - Annals of Philosophy, new series (10), 337-344 (journal article, English)
J. E. Gray, 1821 - On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals - The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review (15), 296-310 (journal article, English)
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