Mammalia - Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Full reference: A. D. Rincón, A. Solórzano, H. G. McDonald and M. Montellano-Ballesteros. 2019. Two new megalonychid sloths (Mammalia: Xenarthra) from the Urumaco Formation (late Miocene), and their phylogenetic affinities. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17(5):409-421
Belongs to Pattersonocnus according to A. D. Rincón et al. 2019
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MCNC-82-72V, a limb element (right femur). Its type locality is 0.5 km west of Quebrada (Quebrado) Picacho, which is in a Miocene coastal sandstone in the Urumaco Formation of Venezuela.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution: found only at 0.5 km west of Quebrada (Quebrado) Picacho
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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