Thalassocnus Muizon and McDonald 1995 (edentate)

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

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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

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