Lakukullus

Lakukullus
Temporal range: Middle Miocene (Laventan)
~13.8–11.8 Ma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Pilosa
Family: Nothrotheriidae
Subfamily: Nothrotheriinae
Genus: Lakukullus
Pujos et al., 2014
Species:
L. anatisrostratus
Binomial name
Lakukullus anatisrostratus
Pujos et al., 2014

Lakukullus is an extinct genus of nothrotheriid ground sloths that lived during the Middle Miocene around 13.8 to 11.8 million years ago of what is now Bolivia.[1]

  1. ^ Pujos, François; Iuliis, Gerardo De; Quispe, Bernardino Mamani; Flores, Ruben Andrade (2014). "Lakukullus anatisrostratus , gen. et sp. nov., a new massive nothrotheriid sloth (Xenarthra, Pilosa) from the middle Miocene of Bolivia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (5): 1243–1248. Bibcode:2014JVPal..34.1243P. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.849716. hdl:11336/32146. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 86724719.