A peculiar climbing Megalonychidae from the Pleistocene of Peru and its implication for sloth history

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 179-235

  Pujos, François ^a,b   De Iuliis, Gerardo ^c,d   Argot, Christine ^b   Werdelin, Lars ^e  

^a UMIFRE 17 CNRS MAEDI USR3337 Amérique Latine Projet de Recherche Tambo Colorado   (Peru)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^e SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Climbing sloth; Diabolotherium gen. nov.; Functional anatomy; Phylogeny; Systematics

Indexed keywords

EDENTATA; MAMMALIA; MEGALONYCHIDAE; MEGATHERIIDAE; METATHERIA; NOTHROTHERIIDAE; NOTOUNGULATA; SLOTHS; TARDIGRADA; XENARTHRA;

EID: 33846638392     PISSN: 00244082     EISSN: 10963642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00240.x     Document Type: Review

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