Megalocnus

Megalocnus
	Skeleton of Megalocnus rodens ; American Museum of Natural History ,
Systematics
Superordinate :	Sub-articulated animals (Xenarthra)
Order :	Tooth arms (pilosa)
Subordination :	Sloths (folivora)
Superfamily :	Megalocnoidea
Family :	Parocnidae?
Genre :	Megalocnus
Scientific name
	Megalocnus
	Leidy , 1868

Megalocnus is an extinct sloth from the superfamily of the Megalocnoidea . The genus livedon the Caribbean islandsduring the Pleistocene and Holocene and only became extinct about 6000 years ago. The largest species Megalocnus rodens from Cuba was also the largest Caribbean ground sloth and probably reached a body weight of around 200 kg. The last finds of this kind are dated to an age of about 6000 radiocarbon years . Another species of the genus is Megalocnus zile from the Quaternary of Hispaniola .

Individual evidence

^ DW Steadman, Martin, PS; MacPhee, RDE; Jull, AJT; McDonald, HG; Woods, CA; Iturralde-Vinent, M .; Hodgins, GWL: Asynchronous extinction of late Quaternary sloths on continents and islands . In: National Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA . 102, No. 33, August 16, 2005, pp. 11763-11768. doi : 10.1073 / pnas.0502777102 . PMID 16085711 . PMC 1187974 (free full text). Retrieved January 24, 2009.
^ RDE MacPhee, Jennifer L. White, Charles A. Woods: New Megalonychid Sloths (Phyllophaga, Xenarthra) from the Quaternary of Hispaniola. American Museum Novitates Oct 2000: Number 3303, pg (s) 1-32 (2000).

Web links

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[Steadman-1] DW Steadman, Martin, PS; MacPhee, RDE; Jull, AJT; McDonald, HG; Woods, CA; Iturralde-Vinent, M .; Hodgins, GWL: Asynchronous extinction of late Quaternary sloths on continents and islands . In: National Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA . 102, No. 33, August 16, 2005, pp. 11763-11768. doi : 10.1073 / pnas.0502777102 . PMID 16085711 . PMC 1187974 (free full text). Retrieved January 24, 2009.

[2] RDE MacPhee, Jennifer L. White, Charles A. Woods: New Megalonychid Sloths (Phyllophaga, Xenarthra) from the Quaternary of Hispaniola. American Museum Novitates Oct 2000: Number 3303, pg (s) 1-32 (2000).