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Megatherium rectidens
Taxonomy
Megatherium rectidens was named by Rovereto (1914) [type found in the Araucanense formation in Guayquerias de San Carlos, Mendoza. ]. It is a 3D body fossil.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1914 | Megatherium rectidens Rovereto p. 210 figs. Plate XXX, Fig. 1 |
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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.
†Megatherium rectidens Rovereto 1914
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Ji et al. 2002, Lillegraven 1979, Nowak 1999, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Collections
No collection or age range data are available