File:Paramylodon harlani ground sloth (La Brea Asphalt, Upper Pleistocene; Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, southern California, USA) 5 (15444177835).jpg
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Paramylodon harlani Owen, 1840 ground sloth skeleton from the Pleistocene of California, USA (Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, Colorado, 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 Stratigraphy: La Brea Asphalt, Upper Pleistocene Locality: Rancho La Brea tar pits, Los Angeles, southern California, USA |
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| Source | Paramylodon harlani ground sloth (La Brea Asphalt, Upper Pleistocene; Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, southern California, USA) 5 |
| Author | James St. John |
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