Megalocnidae
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megalocnidae-229-1475623
title:
Megalocnidae
text:
Megalocnidae is an extinct family of sloths, native to the islands of the Greater Antilles from the Early Oligocene to the Mid-Holocene. They are known from Cuba, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, but are absent from Jamaica. While they were formerly placed in the Megalonychidae alongside two-toed sloths and ground sloths like Megalonyx, recent mitochondrial DNA and collagen sequencing studies place them as the earliest diverging group basal to all other sloths. or as an outgroup to Megatherioidea. Th
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Extinct Greater Antilles sloth family
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalocnidae
date created:
2019-12-24T22:18:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T16:54:06Z
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fields total:
13
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