Temporal range: Middle Miocene to Early Holocene (Hemphillian-Rancholabrean (NALMA) & Colloncuran-Lujanian (SALMA) ~15.5–0.010 Ma
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Skeleton of Glossotherium robustum at the Natural History Museum, London
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Pilosa
Family:
†Mylodontidae
Subfamily:
†Mylodontinae Gill, 1872
Subgroups
†Archaeomylodon
†Brievabradys?
†Glossotheriopsis
†Megabradys
†Mylodonopsis
†Ocnotherium
†Oreomylodon?
†Prolestodon
†Promylodon
†Ranculcus
†Strabosodon
†Lestodontini
†Bolivartherium
†Lestobradys
†Lestodon
†Magdalenabradys
†Sphenotherus
†Thinobadistes
†Mylodontini
†Glossotheridium
†Glossotherium
†Kiyumylodon
†Mylodon
†Paramylodon
†Pleurolestodon
†Simomylodon
Mylodontinae is an extinct subfamily of ground sloths that lived from the Early Miocene to the Early Holocene epochs.[1]
^Boscaini, Alberto; Pujos, François; Gaudin, Timothy J. (November 2019). "A reappraisal of the phylogeny of Mylodontidae (Mammalia, Xenarthra) and the divergence of mylodontine and lestodontine sloths". Zoologica Scripta. 48 (6): 691–710. doi:10.1111/zsc.12376. S2CID 201194980.
Mylodontinae is an extinct subfamily of ground sloths that lived from the Early Miocene to the Early Holocene epochs. The classification of the Mylodontidae...
containing the species Ocnotherium giganteum. It is a member of the subfamily Mylodontinae, but its relationship to other members of that subfamily are uncertain...
an extinct genus of large mylodontid ground sloths of the subfamily Mylodontinae. It represents one of the best-known members of the family, along with...
Paramylodon, Glossotherium, and Mylodon form a closer relationship within the Mylodontinae. This view also finds support from the aforementioned biochemical data...
Brunetto, Ernesto (September 2010). "Mylodon darwini Owen (Xenarthra, Mylodontinae) from the Late Pleistocene of Mesopotamia, Argentina, with remarks on...
Mylodontidae, Lestodon is considered to be a member of the subfamily Mylodontinae (when Scelidotheriidae is not considered a separate family). It is the...
2(4):5-13 A. Rinderknecht, D. Perea, and H.G. McDonald. 2007. A New Mylodontinae (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the Camacho Formation (Late Miocene), Uruguay...
complex and much debated. Widely accepted are the late groups of the Mylodontinae with Mylodon as the type genus and the Lestodontinae, whose type genus...
1–14. Accessed 2017-05-04. Villarroel A., Carlos S. 2000. Un nuevo Mylodontinae (Xenarthra, Tardigrada) en la Fauna de La Venta, Mioceno de Colombia:...
(2019). "Comparative skull osteology of Oreomylodon wegneri (Xenarthra, Mylodontinae): defining the taxonomic status of the Ecuadorian endemic ground sloth"...