Proscelidodon

Proscelidodon
Skull of Proscelidodon in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Pilosa
Family: †Scelidotheriidae
Genus: †Proscelidodon
Bordas, 1935
Type species
†Proscelidodon patrius
Ameghino, 1883
Other species
  • †P. gracillimus Rovereto, 1914
  • †P. rothi Kraglievich, 1923

Proscelidodon is an extinct genus of ground sloths in the family Scelidotheriidae. It lived during the Miocene and Pliocene of what is now Argentina and Bolivia.[1] The genus was described in 1935.[2]

  1. ^ Pujos, François; Candela, Adriana; Galli, Claudia I.; Coira, Beatriz L.; Reguero, Marcelo A.; Reyes, Martín De Los; Abello, María Alejandra (December 2012). "The Scelidotheriine Proscelidodon (Xenarthra: Mylodontidae) from the Late Miocene of Maimará (Northwestern Argentina, Jujuy Province)". Ameghiniana. 49 (4): 668–674. doi:10.5710/AMGH.20.11.2012.593. ISSN 0002-7014. S2CID 140142938.
  2. ^ "Proscelidodon Bordas, 1935". GBIF. Retrieved 5 June 2022.