English: Paramylodon harlani Owen, 1840 - fossil Harlan's ground sloth skull. (public display, Cincinnati Museum of Natural History & Science, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
Living sloths are medium-sized, very slow-moving, arboreal mammals of South America & Mesoamerica. During the middle & late Cenozoic, several large, ground-dwelling sloth species existed in the Americas. Shown here is one of the giant ground sloths known from the late Pleistocene of North America. This is Harlan’s ground sloth, Paramylodon harlani (a.k.a. Glossotherium (Paramylodon) harlani), whose body length reached two meters.
Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Xenarthra, Phyllophaga, Mylodonta, Mylodontoidea, Mylodontidae
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