Megatherium

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Megatherioidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Metopophora Cladus: Haptodontiformes Cladus: Sphenacomorpha Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Pantherapsida Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Eutheriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Epicynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliamorpha Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Cladotheria Cladus: Prototribosphenida Cladus: Zatheria Cladus: Tribosphenida Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Atlantogenata Superordo: Xenarthra Ordo: Pilosa Subordo: Folivora Superfamilia: Megatherioidea

Familia: †Megatheriidae
Subfamilia: †Megatheriinae
Genus: †Megatherium
Species (9): †M. altiplanicum – †M. americanum – †M. celendinense – †M. filholi – †M. gallardoi – †M. medinae – †M. sundti – †M. tarijense – †M. urbinai

Name

Megatherium Cuvier, 1796: 303

Type species: Megatherium americanum Cuvier, 1796, by subsequent designation.

References

Primary references

Cuvier, G. 1796. Notice sur le squelette d’une très grande espèce de quadrupède inconnue jusqu’à présent, trouvé au Paraguay, et déposé au cabinet d’Histoire naturelle de Madrid. Magasin Encyclopédique 1: 303–310.

Additional references

Saint-André, P.-A. & De Iuliis, G. 2001. The smallest and most ancient representative of the genus Megatherium Cuvier, 1796 (Xenarthra, Tardigrada, Megatheriidae), from the Pliocene of the Bolivian Altiplano. Geodiversitas 23(4): 625–645. PDF Reference page.
Pujos, F. & Salas-Gismondi, R. 2004. A new species of Megatherium (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Megatheriidae) from the Pleistocene of Sacaco and Tres Ventanas, Peru. Palaeontology 47(3): 579–604. DOI: 10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00376.x Reference page.
De Iuliis, G. 2006. On the taxonomic status of Megatherium sundti Philippi, 1893 (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Megatheriidae). Ameghiniana 43(1): 161–169. Reference page.
Pujos, F. 2006. Megatherium celendinense sp. nov. from the Pleistocene of the Peruvian Andes and the phylogenetic relationships of megatheriines. Palaeontology 49(2): 285–306. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00522.x Reference page.
Brandoni D., Soibelzon, E. & Scarano, A. 2008. On Megatherium gallardoi (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Megatheriidae) and the Megatheriinae from the Ensenadan (lower to middle Pleistocene) of the Pampean region, Argentina. Geodiversitas 30(4): 793–804. PDF Reference page.
De Iuliis, G., Pujos, F. & Tito, G. 2009. Systematic and taxonomic revision of the Pleistocene ground sloth Megatherium (Pseudomegatherium) tarijense (Xenarthra: Megatheriidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(4): 1244–1251. DOI: 10.1671/039.029.0426 Reference page.
Agnolín, F.L., Chimento, N.R., Brandoni, D., Boh, D., Campo, D.H., Magnussen, M. & De Cianni, F. 2018. New Pleistocene remains of Megatherium filholi Moreno, 1888 (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the Pampean Region: Implications for the diversity of Megatheriinae of the Quaternary of South America. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 289(3): 339–348. DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2018/0777 Reference page.