Megatheridium annectens Cabrera 1928 (edentate)

Mammalia - Xenarthra - Megatheriidae

Full reference: A. Cabrera. 1928. Sobre algunos megaterios pliocenos. Revista del Museo de La Plata 31:339-352

Belongs to Megatheridium according to Cabrera 1928

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: n. 2-69 of MLP, a partial skull (posterior part of skull). Its type locality is Section VI, fraction C, lot 16 - 6 leagues N of the streams / barrancas, which is in a Huayquerian terrestrial horizon in the Río Negro Formation of Argentina.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Section VI, fraction C, lot 16 - 6 leagues N of the streams / barrancas

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