- currents.
Together with the armadillos,
which are in the
order Cingulata,
pilosans are part of the
larger superorder Xenarthra, a
defining characteristic...
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Pilosa is an
order of
placental mammals.
Members of this
order are
called pilosans, and
include anteaters and sloths. They are
found in
South and Central...
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Insular dwarfism, a form of
phyletic dwarfism, is the
process and
condition of
large animals evolving or
having a
reduced body size when
their po****tion's...
- late
Pleistocene North American Pilosans List of
extant Central American Pilosans List of
extant South American Pilosans White and MacPhee, 2001 Presslee...
- The
Cerro Azul
Formation (Spanish: Formación
Cerro Azul), also
described as Epecuén Formation, is a
geological formation of Late
Miocene (Tortonian, or...
- This
article records new taxa of
fossil mammals of
every kind that are
scheduled to be
described during the year 2025, as well as
other significant discoveries...
-
North America. It is
thought that
swimming led to
oceanic dispersal of
pilosans to the
Greater Antilles by the Oligocene, and that the
megalonychid Pliometanastes...
-
terrestrial than
extant sloths,
although not
exclusively so. Some
other pilosans are
still found on
islands along the
margin of the Caribbean. The order...
- This
paleomammalogy list
records new
fossil mammal taxa that were
described during the year 2020, as well as
notes other significant paleomammalogy discoveries...
- This
article records new taxa of
fossil mammals of
every kind that are
scheduled to be
described during the year 2024, as well as
other significant discoveries...
