Mammalia - Megatherioidea - Nothrotheriidae
Full reference: C. Muizon and H. G. McDonald. 1995. An aquatic sloth from the Pliocene of Peru. Nature 375:224-227
Belongs to Thalassocnus according to A. M. Valenzuela-Toro et al. 2025
See also Amson et al. 2017, Muizon and McDonald 1995 and Peralta-Prato and Solórzano 2019
Sister taxa: Thalassocnus antiquus, Thalassocnus carolomartini, Thalassocnus littoralis, Thalassocnus yaucensis
Type specimen: MNHN SAS 734, a partial skeleton (skull, mandible, and partial skeleton). Its type locality is Sud Sacaco, Montemar, which is in a Messinian paralic siltstone in the Pisco Formation of Peru.
Ecology: aquatic omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Chile (2 collections), Peru (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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