Urumacotherium | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Pilosa |
Family: | †Mylodontidae |
Genus: | †Urumacotherium Bocquentin-Villanueva 1983 |
Type species | |
†Urumacotherium garciai Bocquentin-Villanueva, 1983
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Urumacotherium (meaning "Urumaco beast") is an extinct genus of ground sloths of the family Mylodontidae. It lived from the Middle Miocene to the Early Pliocene of what is now Brazil, Peru and Venezuela.