Hapalops

Hapalops
Temporal range: Early-Late Miocene (Santacrucian-Huayquerian)
~17.5–7.246 Ma
H. ruetimeyeri, collected from Rio Gallegos, Patagonia, Argentina. At the AMNH.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Pilosa
Superfamily: Megatherioidea
Genus: Hapalops
Ameghino, 1887
Type species
Hapalops rectangularis
Ameghino, 1887
Other species
  • H. adteger Ameghino, 1887
  • H. aguirrei Mercerat, 1891
  • H. angustipalatus Ameghino, 1891
  • H. antistis Ameghino, 1891
  • H. atlanticus Ameghino, 1891
  • H. australis Mercerat, 1891
  • H. boulei Mercerat, 1891
  • H. brachycephalus Ameghino, 1894
  • H. brevipalatus Ameghino, 1891
  • H. cadens
  • H. cilindricus Ameghino, 1891
  • H. cognathus Mercerat, 1891
  • H. congermanus Ameghino, 1891
  • H. crassidens Ameghino, 1891
  • H. crassignathus Ameghino, 1891
  • H. crassissimus Ameghino, 1894
  • H. curvus Ameghino, 1899
  • H. depressipalatus Ameghino, 1891
  • H. diverssidens Ameghino, 1891
  • H. ellipticus
  • H. elongatus Ameghino, 1891
  • H. forticulus Ameghino, 1891
  • H. gallaicus
  • H. gracilidens Ameghino, 1891
  • H. grandaevus Moreno and Mercerat, 1891
  • H. grandis Ameghino, 1894
  • H. hyperleptus Ameghino, 1891
  • H. indifferens Ameghino, 1887
  • H. infernalis Ameghino, 1887
  • H. latus Ameghino, 1894
  • H. longiceps Scott, 1903
  • H. longipalatus Ameghino, 1891
  • H. longipes
  • H. minutus Ameghino, 1891
  • H. platycephalus Scott, 1903
  • H. ponderosus Scott, 1903
  • H. primus Ameghino, 1894
  • H. rectagulidens Ameghino, 1891
  • H. robustus Ameghino, 1891
  • H. rostratus Ameghino, 1887
  • H. rutimeyeri Ameghino, 1891
  • H. sectus Ameghino, 1891
  • H. subcuadratus Ameghino, 1891
  • H. testudinatus Ameghino, 1891
  • H. vulpiceps Scott, 1903
Life restoration of Hapalops longiceps and Propalaehoplophorus australis
Skeleton

Hapalops is an extinct genus of ground sloth from the Early to Late Miocene of Brazil (Solimões Formation), Bolivia (Honda Group), Colombia (Honda Group),[1] and Argentina (Santa Cruz Formation) in South America.[2]

  1. ^ Croft, 2007, p.300
  2. ^ Hapalops Archived 2021-12-14 at the Wayback Machine at Fossilworks.org