Nothrotherium

Nothrotherium
Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene-Early Holocene (Uquian-Lujanian)
~1.8–0.010 Ma
Skull of Nothrotherium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Pilosa
Family: Nothrotheriidae
Subfamily: Nothrotheriinae
Genus: Nothrotherium
Lydekker, 1889
Species
  • N. maquinense Lund, 1839
  • N. escrivanense Reinhardt, 1878
Synonyms
  • Coelodon Lund, 1838
  • Caelodon Lund, 1839
  • Coclodon Lund, 1839
  • Cyclodon Lund, 1839
  • Toelodon Lund, 1840
  • Hypocoelus Ameghino, 1891

Nothrotherium is an extinct genus of medium-sized ground sloth from South America (Bolivia, Brazil and the Ware Formation, La Guajira, Colombia).[1] It differs from Nothrotheriops in smaller size and differences in skull and hind leg bones.

  1. ^ Amson et al., 2016, p.12