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Glossotherium
Taxonomy
Glossotherium was named by Owen (1840) [type species not designated in 1840, but the name was tied by Owen 1840 to the type specimen of Mylodon robustus by Owen 1842]. It is not extant.
It was assigned to Megatheriidae by Lydekker (1894); to Megalonychidae by Oliver Schneider (1926); to Mylodontidae by Owen (1840), Rovereto (1914), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Carroll (1988), MacFadden et al. (1993), Salles et al. (2006), McDonald and Naples (2007); to Mylodontinae by Hoffstetter (1954), Gaudin (1995), Varela et al. (2019); and to Mylodontini by Boscaini et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Megatheriidae by Lydekker (1894); to Megalonychidae by Oliver Schneider (1926); to Mylodontidae by Owen (1840), Rovereto (1914), Kurten and Anderson (1980), Carroll (1988), MacFadden et al. (1993), Salles et al. (2006), McDonald and Naples (2007); to Mylodontinae by Hoffstetter (1954), Gaudin (1995), Varela et al. (2019); and to Mylodontini by Boscaini et al. (2019).
Species
Eumylodon bonaerensis, Eumylodon incertus, G. chapadmalense, G. domesticum, G. emmersoni, G. garbanii, G. giganteum (syn. Chlamydotherium gigas), G. phoenesis, G. robustum (syn. Pseudolestodon morenoii, Mylodon gracilis, Pseudolestodon lettsomi, Pseudolestodon myloides, G. lettsomi), G. tropicorum, G. wegneri, Pseudolestodon injunctus, Pseudolestodon tarijensis