Temporal range: Early-Late Miocene (Santacrucian-Huayquerian) ~17.5–7.246 Ma
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Hapalops ruetimeyeri
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Pilosa
Superfamily:
Megatherioidea
Genus:
†Hapalops Ameghino, 1887
Type species
†Hapalops rectangularis
Ameghino, 1887
Other species
H. adteger Ameghino, 1887
H. aguirrei Mercerat, 1891
H. angustipalatus Ameghino, 1891
H. antistis Ameghino, 1891
H. atlanticus Ameghino, 1891
H. australis Mercerat, 1891
H. boulei Mercerat, 1891
H. brachycephalus Ameghino, 1894
H. brevipalatus Ameghino, 1891
H. cadens
H. cilindricus Ameghino, 1891
H. cognathus Mercerat, 1891
H. congermanus Ameghino, 1891
H. crassidens Ameghino, 1891
H. crassignathus Ameghino, 1891
H. crassissimus Ameghino, 1894
H. curvus Ameghino, 1899
H. depressipalatus Ameghino, 1891
H. diverssidens Ameghino, 1891
H. ellipticus
H. elongatus Ameghino, 1891
H. forticulus Ameghino, 1891
H. gallaicus
H. gracilidens Ameghino, 1891
H. grandaevus Moreno and Mercerat, 1891
H. grandis Ameghino, 1894
H. hyperleptus Ameghino, 1891
H. indifferens Ameghino, 1887
H. infernalis Ameghino, 1887
H. latus Ameghino, 1894
H. longiceps Scott, 1903
H. longipalatus Ameghino, 1891
H. longipes
H. minutus Ameghino, 1891
H. platycephalus Scott, 1903
H. ponderosus Scott, 1903
H. primus Ameghino, 1894
H. rectagulidens Ameghino, 1891
H. robustus Ameghino, 1891
H. rostratus Ameghino, 1887
H. rutimeyeri Ameghino, 1891
H. sectus Ameghino, 1891
H. subcuadratus Ameghino, 1891
H. testudinatus Ameghino, 1891
H. vulpiceps Scott, 1903
Hapalops is an extinct genus of ground sloth from the Early to Late Miocene of Brazil (Solimões Formation), Bolivia (Honda Group), Colombia (Honda Group),[1] and Argentina (Santa Cruz Formation) in South America.[2]
like a gorilla. Hapalops had very few teeth with no incisors; the mandible included only four pairs of teeth. In the Santa Cruz, Hapalops fed on vegetation...
that was originally considered a megatheriid, the more slightly built Hapalops, reached a length of about 1.2 metres (3.9 ft). The nothrotheres have recently...
270 kg (595 lbs) to 200 kg (440 lbs). Megalocnus largely differs from Hapalops in skull and dental structure, especially in the orientation of the enlarged...
representatives. Its proportions correspond roughly to those of the extinct Hapalops, to which semi-scansorial locomotion is attributed, whereby the climbing...
placed in a specific family, Hiskatherium is similar to the extinct sloths Hapalops and Xyophorus. Hiskatherium at Fossilworks.org Pujos, F.; Iuliis, G. de...
Colombia Bolivia Argentina Chile Peru Venezuela Argentina Boreostemma Hapalops Miocochilius Theosodon Xenastrapotherium Mylodontidae Sparassodonta Primates...