Aymaratherium

Aymaratherium
Temporal range: Late Miocene-Early Pliocene (Huayquerian-Montehermosan)
~6.8–3.0 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Pilosa
Family: Nothrotheriidae
Subfamily: Nothrotheriinae
Genus: Aymaratherium
Pujos et al., 2016
Species:
A. jeani
Binomial name
Aymaratherium jeani
Pujos et al., 2016

Aymaratherium is an extinct genus of nothrotheriid ground sloths that lived during the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene of Bolivia. Fossils of Aymaratherium have been found in the Pomata Ayte locality of the Umala Formation.[1]

  1. ^ Pujos, François; De Iuliis, Gerardo; Mamani Quispe, Bernardino; Adnet, Sylvain; Andrade Flores, Ruben; Billet, Guillaume; Fernández-Monescillo, Marcos; Marivaux, Laurent; Münch, Philippe; Prámparo, Mercedes B.; Antoine, Pierre-Olivier (2016-10-14). "A new nothrotheriid xenarthran from the early Pliocene of Pomata-Ayte (Bolivia): new insights into the caniniform-molariform transition in sloths". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 178 (3): 679–712. doi:10.1111/zoj.12429. hdl:11336/182949. ISSN 0024-4082.