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Nothrotherium
Taxonomy
Nothrotherium was named by Lydekker (1889). It is not extant. Its type is Coelodon maquinense. It is the type genus of Nothrotheriinae.
It was assigned to Megatheriidae by Lydekker (1894), Carroll (1988); to Nothrotheriidae by Amson et al. (2017); and to Nothrotheriinae by Hay (1930), Hoffstetter (1954), Varela et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Megatheriidae by Lydekker (1894), Carroll (1988); to Nothrotheriidae by Amson et al. (2017); and to Nothrotheriinae by Hay (1930), Hoffstetter (1954), Varela et al. (2019).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1889 | Coelodon Cope p. 658 |
| 1889 | Nothrotherium Lydekker |
| 1894 | Nothrotherium Lydekker p. 92 |
| 1930 | Nothrotherium Hay p. 406 |
| 1954 | Nothrotherium Hoffstetter |
| 1988 | Nothrotherium Carroll |
| 2017 | Nothrotherium Amson et al. p. 231 figs. Fig. 10 |
| 2019 | Nothrotherium Varela et al. |
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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.
G. †Nothrotherium Lydekker 1889
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†Nothrotherium maquinense Hay 1930
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Invalid names: Coelodon escrivanensis Reinhardt 1878 [synonym]
†Nothrotherium mexicanum Freudenberg 1921
†Nothrotherium shastense Sinclair 1905 [Shasta ground sloth]
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Invalid names: Nothrotherium graciliceps Stock 1913 [synonym]
†Nothrotherium shastense hawveri Stock 1918
†Nothrotherium texanum Hay 1916
Invalid names: Coelodon Lund [replaced]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available