Mammalia - Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae
Full reference: A. Cabrera. 1928. Sobre algunos megaterios pliocenos. Revista del Museo de La Plata 31:339-352
Belongs to Plesiomegatherium according to F. Pujos 2006
See also Brandoni and De Iuliis 2007 and Brandoni et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Plesiomegatherium hansmeyeri, Plesiomegatherium triangulatum
Type specimen: MLP 26-IV-10-1, a partial skull (nearly complete skull of adult or nearly adult individual, but not well preserved, and with numerous fractures; premaxillae, zygomatic arches and part of the le). Its type locality is Arroyo Chasicó, which is in a Chasicoan floodplain sandstone in the Arroyo Chasicó Formation of Argentina.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution: found only at Arroyo Chasicó
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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