Definition of Megatheriidae. Meaning of Megatheriidae. Synonyms of Megatheriidae

- Megatheriidae is a family of extinct ground sloths that lived from approximately 23 mya—11,000 years ago. Megatheriids appeared during the Late Oligocene...
- are likely to have had mobile tongues. In many ground sloth families (Megatheriidae, Mylodontidae, Scelidotheriidae and Nothrotheriidae), the hindfoot is...
- Pseudomegatherium are known from the Andes. Megatherium is part of the sloth family Megatheriidae, which also includes the similarly giant Eremotherium, comparable in...
- θηρίον "beast") is an extinct genus of giant ground sloth in the family Megatheriidae. Eremotherium lived in southern North America, Central America, and...
- formations of Chile. Thal****ocninae has been placed in both the families Megatheriidae and Nothrotheriidae. Thal****ocnus evolved several marine adaptations...
- both the two-toed sloths and the extinct Greater Antilles sloths. †Megatheriidae: ground sloths that existed for about 23 million years and went extinct...
- Family †Megalonychidae Gervais 1855 (megalonychid ground sloths) Family †Megatheriidae Gray 1821 (megatheriid ground sloths) Family †Nothrotheriidae Ameghino...
- subfamily of the Megatheriidae, an extinct family of ground sloths that lived from the Middle Miocene to the Early Holocene. Within the Megatheriidae there are...
- in the Pleistocene Ground Sloth Nothrotheriops shastense (Mammalia, Megatheriidae), Contributions in Science 389, October 1987, Natural History Museum...
- within the tribe Nothrotheriini or subfamily Nothrotheriinae within Megatheriidae, they are now usually placed in their own family, Nothrotheriidae. Nothrotheriids...