Ground sloth, the Glossary

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1. 122 relations: Acratocnus, Aden Crater, African bush elephant, Alaska, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Museum of Natural History, American Philosophical Society, Arizona, Before Present, Beringia, Browsing (herbivory), Burrow, Calcaneus, Caribbean, Caribbean Journal of Science, Catonyx, Chubutherium, Clovis point, Coprolite, CRC Press, Cuba, Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument, Cueva Fell, Dentin, Dickinson State University, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, Elephant, Eocene, Eremotherium, Extinction, Family (biology), Fossil, Fossil track, Genus, Geological Society of London, Geologists' Association, Georges Cuvier, Glossary of archaeology, Glossotherium, Grazing (behaviour), Great American Interchange, Greater Antilles, Hispaniola, Holocene, Infrasound, Iowa, Isthmus of Panama, Kilbourne Hole, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Land bridge, ... Expand index (72 more) »

2. Clawed herbivores
3. Mammal common names
4. Oligocene xenarthrans
5. Pliocene xenarthrans
6. Prehistoric mammals of South America

Acratocnus

Acratocnus is an extinct genus of Caribbean sloths that were found on Cuba, Hispaniola (today the Dominican Republic and Haiti), and Puerto Rico during the Late Pleistocene and early-mid Holocene. Ground sloth and Acratocnus are Pleistocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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Aden Crater

Aden Crater is a small shield volcano located in Doña Ana County, about southwest of Las Cruces, New Mexico.

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African bush elephant

The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), also known as the African savanna elephant, is one of two extant African elephant species and one of three extant elephant species.

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Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated mission of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the betterment of all humanity.

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American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

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American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Before Present

Before Present (BP) or "years before present (YBP)" is a time scale used mainly in archaeology, geology, and other scientific disciplines to specify when events occurred relative to the origin of practical radiocarbon dating in the 1950s.

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Beringia

Beringia is defined today as the land and maritime area bounded on the west by the Lena River in Russia; on the east by the Mackenzie River in Canada; on the north by 72° north latitude in the Chukchi Sea; and on the south by the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula.

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Browsing (herbivory)

Browsing is a type of herbivory in which a herbivore (or, more narrowly defined, a folivore) feeds on leaves, soft shoots, or fruits of high-growing, generally woody plants such as shrubs.

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Burrow

An eastern chipmunk at the entrance of its burrow A burrow is a hole or tunnel excavated into the ground by an animal to construct a space suitable for habitation or temporary refuge, or as a byproduct of locomotion.

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Calcaneus

In humans and many other primates, the calcaneus (from the Latin calcaneus or calcaneum, meaning heel;: calcanei or calcanea) or heel bone is a bone of the tarsus of the foot which constitutes the heel.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Caribbean Journal of Science

The Caribbean Journal of Science is a biannual peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal publishing articles, research notes, and book reviews related to science in the Caribbean, with an emphasis on botany, zoology, ecology, conservation biology, geology, archaeology, and paleontology.

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Catonyx

Catonyx is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Scelidotheriidae, endemic to South America during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. Ground sloth and Catonyx are Pleistocene xenarthrans, Pliocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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Chubutherium

Chubutherium is an extinct genus of ground sloth from the Late Oligocene and Early Miocene of Chubut Province, Argentina. Ground sloth and Chubutherium are Miocene xenarthrans, Oligocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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Clovis point

Clovis points are the characteristically fluted projectile points associated with the New World Clovis culture, a prehistoric Paleo-American culture.

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Coprolite

A coprolite (also known as a coprolith) is fossilized feces.

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CRC Press

The CRC Press, LLC is an American publishing group that specializes in producing technical books.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument

Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument is a Natural Monument located in the Chilean Patagonia, northwest of Puerto Natales and north of Punta Arenas.

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Cueva Fell

Cueva Fell or Fell's Cave is a natural cave and archaeological site in southern Patagonia.

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Dentin

Dentin (American English) or dentine (British English) (substantia eburnea) is a calcified tissue of the body and, along with enamel, cementum, and pulp, is one of the four major components of teeth.

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Dickinson State University

Dickinson State University (DSU) is a public university in Dickinson, North Dakota.

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Doña Ana County, New Mexico

Doña Ana County (Condado de Doña Ana) is a county located in the southern part of the State of New Mexico, United States.

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Elephant

Elephants are the largest living land animals. Ground sloth and Elephant are mammal common names.

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Eocene

The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).

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Eremotherium

Eremotherium (from Greek for "steppe" or "desert beast": ἔρημος "steppe or desert" and θηρίον "beast") is an extinct genus of giant ground sloth in the family Megatheriidae. Eremotherium lived in southern North America, Central America, and northern South America from the Pliocene, around 5.3 million years ago, to the end of the Late Pleistocene, around 10,000 years ago. Ground sloth and Eremotherium are Pleistocene xenarthrans, Pliocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Fossil track

A fossil track or ichnite (Greek "ιχνιον" (ichnion) – a track, trace or footstep) is a fossilized footprint.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Geological Society of London

The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom.

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Geologists' Association

The Geologists' Association, founded in 1858, is a British organisation with charitable status for those concerned with the study of geology.

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Georges Cuvier

Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology".

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Glossary of archaeology

This page is a glossary of archaeology, the study of the human past from material remains.

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Glossotherium

Glossotherium is an extinct genus of large mylodontid ground sloths of the subfamily Mylodontinae. Ground sloth and Glossotherium are Pleistocene xenarthrans, Pliocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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Grazing (behaviour)

Grazing is a method of feeding in which a herbivore feeds on low-growing plants such as grasses or other multicellular organisms, such as algae.

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Great American Interchange

The Great American Biotic Interchange (commonly abbreviated as GABI), also known as the Great American Interchange and the Great American Faunal Interchange, was an important late Cenozoic paleozoogeographic biotic interchange event in which land and freshwater fauna migrated from North America to South America via Central America and vice versa, as the volcanic Isthmus of Panama rose up from the sea floor and bridged the formerly separated continents.

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Greater Antilles

The Greater Antilles is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Navassa Island, and the Cayman Islands.

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Hispaniola

Hispaniola (also) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.

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Infrasound

Infrasound, sometimes referred to as low frequency sound, describes sound waves with a frequency below the lower limit of human audibility (generally 20 Hz, as defined by the ANSI/ASA S1.1-2013 standard).

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Iowa

Iowa is a doubly landlocked state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Isthmus of Panama

The Isthmus of Panama (Istmo de Panamá), also historically known as the Isthmus of Darien (Istmo de Darién), is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North and South America.

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Kilbourne Hole

Kilbourne Hole is a maar volcanic crater, located west of the Franklin Mountains of El Paso, Texas, in the Potrillo volcanic field of Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

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Lake Mead National Recreation Area

Lake Mead National Recreation Area is a U.S. national recreation area in Southeastern Nevada and Northwestern Arizona.

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Land bridge

In biogeography, a land bridge is an isthmus or wider land connection between otherwise separate areas, over which animals and plants are able to cross and colonize new lands.

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Last Glacial Maximum

The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice sheets were at their greatest extent 26,000 and 20,000 years ago.

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Last Glacial Period

The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the timespan of the Late Pleistocene.

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Late Pleistocene

The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic perspective.

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Late Pleistocene extinctions

The Late Pleistocene to the beginning of the Holocene saw the extinction of the majority of the world's megafaunal (typically defined as having body masses over) animal species (the Pleistocene megafauna), which resulted in a collapse in faunal density and diversity across the globe.

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Lava tube

A lava tube, or pyroduct, is a natural conduit formed by flowing lava from a volcanic vent that moves beneath the hardened surface of a lava flow.

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Lestodon

Lestodon is an extinct genus of giant ground sloth native to South America during the Pleistocene epoch. Ground sloth and Lestodon are Pleistocene xenarthrans, Pliocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase.

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Mammal

A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.

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Megalocnidae

Megalocnidae is an extinct family (alternatively considered to be a superfamily as Megalocnoidea) of sloths, native to the islands of the Greater Antilles from the Early Oligocene to the Mid-Holocene. Ground sloth and Megalocnidae are prehistoric sloths.

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Megalocnus

Megalocnus ("great sloth" in Greek) is a genus of extinct ground sloths that were native to Cuba during the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs. Ground sloth and Megalocnus are Pleistocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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Megalonychidae

Megalonychidae is an extinct family of sloths including the extinct Megalonyx. Ground sloth and Megalonychidae are prehistoric sloths.

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Megalonyx

Megalonyx (Greek, "great-claw") is an extinct genus of ground sloths of the family Megalonychidae, native to North America. Ground sloth and Megalonyx are Pleistocene xenarthrans, Pliocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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Megatheriidae

Megatheriidae is a family of extinct ground sloths that lived from approximately 23 mya—11,000 years ago. Ground sloth and Megatheriidae are Miocene xenarthrans, Pleistocene xenarthrans, Pliocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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Megatherium

Megatherium (from Greek méga 'great' + theríon 'beast') is an extinct genus of ground sloths endemic to South America that lived from the Early Pliocene through the end of the Pleistocene. Ground sloth and Megatherium are Pleistocene xenarthrans, Pliocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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Metabolism (from μεταβολή metabolē, "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms.

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The metatarsal bones or metatarsus (metatarsi) are a group of five long bones in the midfoot, located between the tarsal bones (which form the heel and the ankle) and the phalanges (toes).

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Mylodon

Mylodon is a genus of extinct ground sloth belonging to the family Mylodontidae, known from southern South America. Ground sloth and Mylodon are Pleistocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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Mylodontidae

Mylodontidae is a family of extinct South American and North American ground sloths within the suborder Folivora of order Pilosa, living from around 23 million years ago (Mya) to 11,000 years ago. Ground sloth and Mylodontidae are Miocene xenarthrans, Oligocene xenarthrans, Pleistocene xenarthrans, Pliocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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National Museum of Natural History

The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States.

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Neocnus

Neocnus is an extinct genus of megalocnid sloth, whose species ranged across Cuba and Hispaniola (today split between Haiti and the Dominican Republic). Ground sloth and Neocnus are Pleistocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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Neogene

The Neogene is a geologic period and system that spans 20.45 million years from the end of the Paleogene Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the present Quaternary Period million years ago.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Nothrotheriidae

Nothrotheriidae is a family of extinct ground sloths that lived from approximately 17.5 mya—10,000 years ago, existing for approximately. Ground sloth and Nothrotheriidae are Miocene xenarthrans, Pleistocene xenarthrans, Pliocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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Nothrotheriops

Nothrotheriops is a genus of Pleistocene ground sloth found in North America, from what is now central Mexico to the southern United States. Ground sloth and Nothrotheriops are Pleistocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Order (biology)

Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Osteoderm

Osteoderms are bony deposits forming scales, plates, or other structures based in the dermis.

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Paleogene

The Paleogene Period (also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene) is a geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from the end of the Cretaceous Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Neogene Period Ma.

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Paleontology

Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

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Panama

Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America.

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Paramylodon

Paramylodon is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Mylodontidae endemic to North America during the Pliocene through Pleistocene epochs, living from around ~4.9 Mya–12,000 years ago. Ground sloth and Paramylodon are Pleistocene xenarthrans, Pliocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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Paraphyly

Paraphyly is a taxonomic term describing a grouping that consists of the grouping's last common ancestor and some but not all of its descendant lineages.

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Parental care

Parental care is a behavioural and evolutionary strategy adopted by some animals, involving a parental investment being made to the evolutionary fitness of offspring.

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Parocnus

Parocnus is an extinct genus of sloth native to Cuba and Hispaniola, belonging to the family Megalocnidae. Ground sloth and Parocnus are prehistoric sloths.

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Patagonia

Patagonia is a geographical region that encompasses the southern end of South America, governed by Argentina and Chile.

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Peabody Museum of Natural History

The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University (also known as the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History or the Yale Peabody Museum) is one of the oldest, largest, and most prolific university natural history museums in the world.

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Pen (enclosure)

A pen is an enclosure for holding livestock.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Pilosans of the Caribbean

The mammalian order Pilosa, which includes the sloths and anteaters, includes various species from the Caribbean region.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Plesiomorphy and symplesiomorphy

In phylogenetics, a plesiomorphy ("near form") and symplesiomorphy are synonyms for an ancestral character shared by all members of a clade, which does not distinguish the clade from other clades.

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Pliocene

The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.

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Pliometanastes is an extinct genus of ground sloths of the family Megalonychidae endemic to North America during the Late Miocene epoch through very early Pliocene epoch (Hemphillian in the NALMA classification). Ground sloth and Pliometanastes are Pliocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.

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Pseudoprepotherium

Pseudoprepotherium is an extinct genus of sloths of the family Mylodontidae. Ground sloth and Pseudoprepotherium are Miocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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Quaternary glaciation

The Quaternary glaciation, also known as the Pleistocene glaciation, is an alternating series of glacial and interglacial periods during the Quaternary period that began 2.58 Ma (million years ago) and is ongoing.

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Radiocarbon dating

Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.

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Scelidodon

Scelidodon is an extinct genus of South American ground sloths. Ground sloth and Scelidodon are Pleistocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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Scelidotheriidae

Scelidotheriidae is a family of extinct ground sloths within the order Pilosa, suborder Folivora and superfamily Mylodontoidea, related to the other extinct mylodontoid family, Mylodontidae, as well as to the living two-toed sloth family Choloepodidae. Ground sloth and Scelidotheriidae are prehistoric sloths.

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Scelidotherium

Scelidotherium is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Scelidotheriidae, endemic to South America during the Late Pleistocene epoch. Ground sloth and Scelidotherium are Pleistocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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Science (journal)

Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.

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Science News

Science News (SN) is an American bi-weekly magazine devoted to articles about new scientific and technical developments, typically gleaned from recent scientific and technical journals.

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Shelter Cave

Shelter Cave is an archaeological and paleontological site located in Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

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Sloth

Sloths are a Neotropical group of xenarthran mammals constituting the suborder Folivora, including the extant arboreal tree sloths and extinct terrestrial ground sloths. Ground sloth and sloth are Clawed herbivores.

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Spear-thrower

A spear-thrower, spear-throwing lever, or atlatl (pronounced or; Nahuatl ahtlatl) is a tool that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity in dart or javelin-throwing, and includes a bearing surface that allows the user to store energy during the throw.

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Thalassocnus

Thalassocnus is an extinct genus of semiaquatic ground sloths from the Miocene and Pliocene of the Pacific South American coast. Ground sloth and Thalassocnus are Miocene xenarthrans, Pliocene xenarthrans and prehistoric sloths.

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Thomas Jefferson

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Three-toed sloth

The three-toed or three-fingered sloths are arboreal neotropical mammals.

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Tooth enamel

Tooth enamel is one of the four major tissues that make up the tooth in humans and many animals, including some species of fish.

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Two-toed sloth

Choloepus is a genus of xenarthran mammals from Central and South America within the monotypic family Choloepodidae, consisting of two-toed sloths, sometimes also called two-fingered sloths.

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Ungual

An ungual (from Latin unguis, i.e. nail) is a highly modified distal toe bone which ends in a hoof, claw, or nail.

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University of California Press

The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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The University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus (UPRM) or Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez (RUM) in Spanish (also referred to as Colegio and CAAM in allusion to its former name), is a public land-grant university in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

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Vertebrate

Vertebrates are deuterostomal animals with bony or cartilaginous axial endoskeleton — known as the vertebral column, spine or backbone — around and along the spinal cord, including all fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

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Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.

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Xenarthra

Xenarthra (from Ancient Greek ξένος, xénos, "foreign, alien" + ἄρθρον, árthron, "joint") is a major clade of placental mammals native to the Americas.

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Yukon

Yukon (formerly called the Yukon Territory and referred to as the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three territories.

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

The Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering zoology published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Linnean Society.

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See also

Clawed herbivores

• Agriochoerus
• Chalicotheres
• Chalicotheriidae
• Deinocheirus
• Diprotodontidae
• Giant panda
• Gresslyosaurus
• Ground sloth
• Homalodotherium
• Kangaroo
• Koala
• Ornithomimosauria
• Palorchestidae
• Plateosaurus
• Procoptodon
• Red panda
• Sloth
• Taeniodonta
• Therizinosauria
• Therizinosaurs
• Tillodontia
• Titanoides

Mammal common names

• African pygmy hedgehog
• Armadillo
• Asiatic leopard
• Badger
• Boto
• Chipmunk
• Civet
• Cuscus
• Deer
• Dolphin
• Elephant
• Fox
• Ground sloth
• Ibex
• Ice seal
• Jackal
• Kangaroo
• Lemming
• Linsang
• List of Malagasy mammal common names
• Malagasy hippopotamus
• Malay civet cat
• Marmoset
• Mink
• Minke whale
• Mole (animal)
• Mouse
• Palm civet
• Pebble-mound mouse
• Polecat
• Rabbit
• Rat
• River dolphin
• Sea lion
• Skunk
• Small Asian mongoose
• Southern plains gray langur
• Tahr
• Viscacha
• Vole
• Wallaby
• Wallaroo
• White-fronted capuchin

Oligocene xenarthrans

• Chubutherium
• Euphractinae
• Glyptatelus
• Ground sloth
• Kuntinaru
• Machlydotherium
• Mylodontidae
• Orophodon
• Peltephilidae
• Peltephilus
• Proplatyarthrus
• Pseudoglyptodon
• Ronwolffia
• Vassallia

Pliocene xenarthrans

• Aymaratherium
• Bolivartherium
• Catonyx
• Dasypus bellus
• Eleutherocercus
• Eremotherium
• Euphractinae
• Glossotherium
• Ground sloth
• Kraglievichia
• Lestodon
• Macroeuphractus
• Magdalenabradys
• Mcdonaldocnus
• Megalonyx
• Megatheriidae
• Megatheriinae
• Megatherium
• Mylodontidae
• Mylodontinae
• Neuryurus
• Nothrotheriidae
• Pachyarmatherium
• Palaeomyrmidon
• Pampatheriidae
• Paramylodon
• Phlyctaenopyga
• Pliometanastes
• Plohophorus
• Proeremotherium
• Proscelidodon
• Scirrotherium
• Simomylodon
• Thalassocnus
• Thinobadistes
• Trachycalyptus
• Urotherium
• Urumacotherium
• Vassallia

Prehistoric mammals of South America

• Catagonus carlesi
• Catagonus metropolitanus
• Catagonus stenocephalus
• Groeberiidae
• Ground sloth
• Homunculus (genus)
• Pachyosteosclerosis
• Puma pumoides
• South American native ungulates
• Tapirus rioplatensis

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_sloth

Also known as Giant sloth, Giant sloths, Ground sloths, Ground-dwelling sloth, Megalonychid ground sloth, Orophodontoidea, Rathymotheriidae.

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