Temporal range: Early Miocene to Early Holocene (Hemphillian-Rancholabrean (NALMA) & Santacrucian-Lujanian) (SALMA)17.5–0.010 Ma
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Megatherium americanum skeleton, Natural History Museum, London
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Pilosa
Family:
†Megatheriidae
Subfamily:
†Megatheriinae Gill, 1872
Genera
†Anisodontherium
†Diabolotherium
†Eomegatherium
†Eremotherium
†Megathericulus
†Megatheridium
†Megatheriops
†Megatherium
†Ocnopus
†Perezfontanatherium
†Plesiomegatherium
†Pliomegatherium
†Proeremotherium
†Promegatherium
†Pyramiodontherium
†Sibotherium[1]
†Urumaquia
Megatheriinae is a subfamily of the Megatheriidae, an extinct family of ground sloths that lived from the Middle Miocene to the Early Holocene.[2][3]
^Rincón, Ascanio D.; Valerio, Ana L.; Laurito, César A.; Rincón, Ascanio D.; Valerio, Ana L.; Laurito, César A. (June 2020). "First fossil record of a Megatheriidae-Megatheriinae in the Early Hemphillian (Late Miocene) from San Gerardo de Limoncito, Curré Formation, Costa Rica". Revista Geológica de América Central (62): 1–24. doi:10.15517/rgac.v62i0.41278 (inactive 31 January 2024). ISSN 0256-7024.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link)
^Luliis, Gerardo De (1996). A systematic review of the Megatheriinae (Mammalia: Xenarthra Megatheriidae) (Thesis).
^Varela, Luciano; Tambusso, P Sebastián; McDonald, H Gregory; Fariña, Richard A (2018-09-15). "Phylogeny, Macroevolutionary Trends and Historical Biogeography of Sloths: Insights From a Bayesian Morphological Clock Analysis". Systematic Biology. 68 (2): 204–218. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syy058. ISSN 1063-5157. PMID 30239971.
Megatheriinae is a subfamily of the Megatheriidae, an extinct family of ground sloths that lived from the Middle Miocene to the Early Holocene. Within...
around 30 million years ago. The subfamily to which Megatherium belongs, Megatheriinae, first appeared in the Middle Miocene in Patagonia, at least 12 million...
Late Miocene of Argentina. All of these genera belong to the subfamily Megatheriinae, which includes the largest and most derived sloths. The direct phylogenetic...
to the family Megatheriidae. Thalassocninae may have diverged from Megatheriinae during the Friasian age of the Miocene around 16 mya. However, a 2018...
of the Megatheriidae, which are summarized in the subfamily of the Megatheriinae and also includes the aforementioned Eremotherium and Megatherium. Evidence...
"Evolutive implications of Megathericulus patagonicus (Xenarthra, Megatheriinae) from the Miocene of Patagonia Argentina". Journal of Mammalian Evolution...
Pujos, F. (2015). Eremotherium laurillardi (Lund, 1842) (Xenarthra, Megatheriinae) is the only valid megatheriine sloth species in the Pleistocene of...
Within the family Megatheriidae, Sibotherium belongs to the subfamily Megatheriinae. Sibotherium occupies a basal position within this subfamily and Sibotherium...
Brandoni; Rodolfo Sánchez, and Marcelo R. Sánchez Villagra. 2018. A new Megatheriinae skull (Xenarthra, Tardigrada) from the Pliocene of Northern Venezuela...
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