[HTML][HTML] A tale of two continents (and a few islands): Ecology and distribution of Late Pleistocene sloths

HG McDonald - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
… By the late Miocene, a megalonychid and a mylodontid are present in … areas of co-occurrence
of extinct species with equal or … do provide some insight into the distribution of the genus. …

Occurrence of the ground sloth Nothrotheriops (Xenarthra, Folivora) in the Late Pleistocene of Uruguay: new information on its dietary and habitat preferences based …

L Varela, PS Tambusso, HG McDonald… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2023 - Springer
… the geographic distribution of the taxon, as well as its climatic and … site other sloths present
include, three mylodontids (Lestodon … The co-occurrence of multiple mylodontids at AdV was …

On the status of the giant mylodontine sloth Glossotherium wegneri (Spillmann, 1931)(Xenarthra, Folivora) from the late Pleistocene of Ecuador

GDE Iuliis, A Boscaini, F Pujos, RK McAfee… - Comptes Rendus …, 2020 - flore.unifi.it
Co-occurrence of mylodontid sloths and insights on their potential distributions during the …
Phylogeny, macroevolutionary trends and historical biogeography of sloths: insights from a …

… of the Extinct Sloth Glossotherium robustum (Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) from the Late Pleistocene of Argentina: Description and Comparison with the Extant Sloths

A Boscaini, DA Iurino, R Sardella, G Tirao… - Journal of Mammalian …, 2020 - Springer
… ), but their relationships are still debated (eg, Gaudin 2004; Slater et al. 2016). The successful
radiations of mylodontid and megalonychid sloths, … by the numerous sloth skeletal remains …

[PDF][PDF] Mexican fossil ground sloths-A case study for Late Pleistocene megafaunal turnover in the Mexican Corridor

S Stinnesbeck - 2020 - scholar.archive.org
through taxonomy, the survey of literature, the revision of museum collections, as well as
fieldwork, provides insights on the ground slothdistribution of Mexican ground sloth taxa? …

A window into a late Pleistocene megafauna community: Stable isotopes show niche partitioning among herbivorous taxa at the Arroyo del Vizcaíno site (Uruguay)

L Varela, L Clavijo, PS Tambusso, RA Fariña - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
… values gives important insights regarding the partitioning of … Nevertheless, the co-occurrence
of the mylodontids Lestodon … the biomechanical efficiency of sloths’ mandibles using …

Ground sloth vertebrae identification through multivariate analysis

PS Tambusso, RA Fariña - Historical Biology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
… In addition, the co-occurrence of genera, either observed in the fossil record or in the analyses
of their potential areas of distribution (Varela et al. Citation2018b), further complicates the …

[HTML][HTML] Gregariousness in the giant sloth Lestodon (Xenarthra): multi-proxy approach of a bonebed from the Last Maximum Glacial of Argentine Pampas

RL Tomassini, CI Montalvo, MC Garrone, L Domingo… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
… Therefore, we interpret here that this mylodontid had, at least … . We consider presence and
distribution of primary and … and distribution of Sharpey’s fibers, and number and distribution of …

Sexual dimorphism in the fossil ground sloth Lestodon armatus (Xenarthra, Folivora)

L Varela, HG McDonald, R Fariña - Historical Biology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
its distribution is quite limited to the Río de la Plata region (Varela et al. Citation2017), with
some cases of co-occurrence … exist in sloths, with a distinctive pattern in mylodontids where an …

Femora Nutrient Foramina and Aerobic Capacity in Giant Extinct Xenarthrans

L Varela, PS Tambusso, RA Fariña - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
… 438 insights that … sloths, with 440 Megatherium americanum having higher than expected
oral processing capacity, pointing to 441 high energetic needs in this taxon, while mylodontids