Mammalia - Megatherioidea - Nothrotheriidae
Full reference: C. Muizon and H. G. McDonald. 1995. An aquatic sloth from the Pliocene of Peru. Nature 375:224-227
Parent taxon: Thalassocninae according to L. Varela et al. 2019
See also Amson et al. 2017, Amson et al. 2017, De Los Arcos et al. 2017, McDonald and Muizon 2002, Muizon and McDonald 1995, Muizon et al. 2004 and Peralta-Prato and Solórzano 2019
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Thalassocnus antiquus Thalassocnus carolomartini Thalassocnus littoralis Thalassocnus natans Thalassocnus yaucensis
Ecology: aquatic omnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Chile (2 collections), Peru (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Argentina (1), Chile (1)
• Miocene of Chile (3), Peru (6)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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