Mylodon sulcidens Cope 1895 (edentate)

Mammalia - Mylodontidae

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1895. On Some Plistocene Mammalia from Petite Anse, La. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 34(149):458-468

Belongs to Mylodon according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Hay 1902, Kurten and Anderson 1980, McDonald 1995 and Stock 1914

Sister taxa: Mylodon ambiguus, Mylodon darwini, Mylodon freudenbergi, Mylodon martinii, Mylodon paranensis, Mylodon renidens

Type specimen: Its type locality is Petite Anse, which is in a Pleistocene terrestrial horizon in Louisiana

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution: found only at Petite Anse

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