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Nothrotherium

Mammalia - Nothrotheriidae

Taxonomy
Nothrotherium was named by Lydekker (1889). It is not extant. Its type is Coelodon maquinense. It is the type genus of Nothrotheriinae.

It was assigned to Megatheriidae by Lydekker (1894) and Carroll (1988); to Nothrotheriidae by Amson et al. (2017); and to Nothrotheriinae by Hay (1930), Hoffstetter (1954) and Varela et al. (2019).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1889Coelodon Cope p. 658
1889Nothrotherium Lydekker
1894Nothrotherium Lydekker p. 92
1930Nothrotherium Hay p. 406
1954Nothrotherium Hoffstetter
1988Nothrotherium Carroll
2017Nothrotherium Amson et al. p. 231 figs. Fig. 10
2019Nothrotherium Varela et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Americatheria
Xenarthra()
infraorderPilosaFlower 1883
Folivora
classEufolivoraDelsuc et al. 2001
superfamilyMegatherioideaGray 1821
Megatheria
familyNothrotheriidaeAmeghino 1920
subfamilyNothrotheriinaeAmeghino 1920
genusNothrotheriumLydekker 1889

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Nothrotherium Lydekker 1889
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Invalid names: Coelodon escrivanensis Reinhardt 1878 [synonym]
Nothrotherium mexicanum Freudenberg 1921
Nothrotherium shastense Sinclair 1905 [Shasta ground sloth]
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Invalid names: Nothrotherium graciliceps Stock 1913 [synonym]
Invalid names: Coelodon Lund [replaced]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available