Family Bradypodidae Gray 1821 (edentate)

Mammalia - Bradypodidae

Alternative spelling: Bradypidae

Full reference: J. E. Gray. 1821. On the natural arrangement of vertebrose animals. The London Medical Repository Monthly Journal and Review 15:296-310

Parent taxon: Eufolivora according to L. Varela et al. 2019

See also Adam 1999, Bonaparte 1850, Cope 1889, Cope 1889, Flower 1883, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gadow 1898, Gray 1821, Gray 1825, Jaekel 1911, Nowak 1991 and Wilson and Reeder 2005

Sister taxa: Megatherioidea, Mylodontidae

Subtaxa: Bradypodina Bradypus

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Ecology: arboreal folivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), Panama (1), Peru (1)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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