The Xenarthra, which are endemic to the Americas, consist of two distinct clades, the Pilosa
(anteaters and sloths) and the Cingulata (armadillos). The association between xenarthrans …

Mexico is critical to understanding many aspects of the paleoecology and biogeography of
xenarthrans in North America following their dispersal from South America during the Great …

A revision of Peruvian Xenarthra and the discovery of new specimens have increased our
knowledge of the Order in this country. About thirty sites from three geographic regions …

The xenarthrans are the only group of mammals that originated in South America; there are
31 living species: six sloths, four anteaters, and 21 armadillos. In Argentina, 18 species of …

The mammalian fauna of Nicaragua includes seven species in the order Xenarthra,
including the brown-throated three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus) in the family …

Armadillos, sloths and anteaters represent a small fragment of a much more diverse fossil
assemblage of xenarthrans that includes bizarre forms such as the armored glyptodonts and …

Xenarthrans—anteaters, sloths, and armadillos—have essential functions for ecosystem
maintenance, such as insect control and nutrient cycling, playing key roles as ecosystem …

Species distribution models (SDMs) are helpful for understanding actual and potential
biogeographical traits of organisms. These models have recently started to be applied in the …

Sloths are one of the most conspicuous groups of the mammalian fauna of South America.
They were widely distributed and extremely diversified in terrestrial environments from the …

The present work concerns xenarthrans from the collection of Santiago (Kaspar Jakob) Roth
(1850–1924) housed at the Palaeontological Institute and Museum of the University of …