Neonematherium | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Pilosa |
Family: | †Scelidotheriidae |
Genus: | †Neonematherium Ameghino 1904 |
Species: | †N. flabellatum
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Binomial name | |
†Neonematherium flabellatum Ameghino 1904
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Neonematherium is an extinct genus of scelidotheriid ground sloths that lived in Argentina,[1] Chile, and Colombia during the Early to Late Miocene. Fossils have been found in the Honda Group of Colombia,[2] and the Río Frías Formation of Chile.[3]
Neonematherium is a member of the Scelidotheriidae, a family of ground sloths known from the Oligocene, Miocene Pliocene, Pleistocene, and the Early Holocene epochs and are characterized by an elongated snout. Scelidotheres themselves part are usually placed as a subfamily of the Mylodontidae, although they are sometimes considered a separate family, Scelidotheriidae.[4]
Below is a phylogenetic tree of the Scelidotheriidae, based on the work of Nieto et al. 2021, showing the position of Neonematherium.[5]
Scelidotheriinae |
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