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The Paleontological Museum Megatherium (Spanish: Museo Paleontológico Megaterio) is a museum in the province of Santa Elena in Ecuador, located in the Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena. It is considered the first museum of paleontology in Ecuador. The museum presents an exhibition on the remains of Late Pleistocene (50,000–8,000 BCE) megafauna found in the Tank Loma sector of La Libertad Canton, one of the sites of the most important fossils in South America.

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Paleontological Museum Megatherium

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The Paleontological Museum Megatherium (Spanish: Museo Paleontológico Megaterio) is a museum in the province of Santa Elena in Ecuador, located in the...

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Megatherium

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Megatherium (/mɛɡəˈθɪəriəm/ meg-ə-THEER-ee-əm; from Greek méga (μέγα) 'great' + theríon (θηρίον) 'beast') is an extinct genus of ground sloths endemic...

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Paleontology

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California Museum of Paleontology The Paleontological Society The Palaeontological Association The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology The Paleontology Portal...

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History of paleontology

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comparative anatomy in paleontology when he presented a second paper in 1796 on a large fossil skeleton from Paraguay, which he named Megatherium and identified...

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Natural Science Museum of Valencia

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location allowed the paleontological collection to be visited by the general public, opening in 1908 as the Municipal Museum of Paleontology. In 1924 Eduardo...

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Glyptodon

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from Uruguay, though many were incorrectly referred to the ground sloth Megatherium by early paleontologists. The type species, G. clavipes, was described...

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Timeline of paleontology

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Cuvier reports that it had an affinity to modern tree sloths and names it Megatherium. 1796 — Cuvier presents a paper on living and fossil elephants that shows...

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Ground sloth

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Xenarthra. Ground sloths varied widely in size, with the largest genera Megatherium and Eremotherium being around the size of elephants. Ground sloths are...

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Eremotherium

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paleontologist and founder of Brazilian paleontology Peter Wilhelm Lund when he established a new species of Megatherium based on two teeth (specimen number...

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Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy

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primigenius, Megatherium, Thalassocnus, Ursus spelaeus, Panthera leo spelaea, Aepyornis and many others. The project of a "Gallery of Paleontology, Comparative...

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Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Argentine Museum

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and a Cenozoic paleontology display featuring Glyptodon, Macrauchenia, Megatherium and Smilodon fossils. Academics and the general public can also avail...

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Paleontology in Oregon

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Paleontology in Oregon refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Oregon. Oregon's geologic record...

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Megalonyx

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Megatherium, discovered in Argentina (mistakenly referred to as Paraguay), Jefferson revised his interpretation and compared Megalonyx to Megatherium...

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Field Museum of Natural History

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The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest...

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Nothrotheriops

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bear-sized xenarthran was related to the much larger, and far more famous Megatherium, although it has recently been placed in a different family, Nothrotheriidae...

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Georges Cuvier

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"mastodon", and that a large skeleton dug up in present-day Argentina was of Megatherium, a giant, prehistoric ground sloth. He also established two ungulate...

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Scelidotherium

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overland from Bahía Blanca to Buenos Aires in 1832. He allied it to the Megatherium. Owen (1840) recognized the true characters of the remains and named...

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Carlos Ameghino

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death of Florentino Ameghino" published in 1918 and "Description of the Megatherium gallardoi C. Amegh. discovered in the lower Pampas of the city of Buenos...

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Moropus

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quite similarly to those of the extinct giant ground sloths (such as Megatherium), their giant claws and ‘hands’ being a formidable defense against predators...

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Largest prehistoric animals

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big as a bull African bush elephant. The closely related ground sloth Megatherium attained similarly large dimensions. Some of the largest known astrapotherians...

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Langstonia

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the remains discovered were then sent to the collections of the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley (UCMP), where they are...

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Paramylodon

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locomotion of the animals, analogous to corresponding trace fossils of Megatherium in South America. However, it was determined that the individual tread...

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Mylodontidae

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Science Library Academy of Natural Sciences ground sloth page Illinois State Museum ground sloth page Ground sloths at La Brea Eremotherium in Florida Have...

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Paja Formation

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Centro de Investigaciones Paleontológicas [es] (CIP), two museums; Paleontological Museum of Villa de Leyva [es], and Museo El Fósil, and a dinosaur...

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Adams mammoth

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Pétersbourg, Vol. 5 (1815), pp. 406-514. The first reconstruction was a Megatherium carried out by Juan Bautista Bru in 1795. Martin Rudwick, Bursting the...

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Thalassocnus

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rectangular teeth that had a similar build to the giant ground sloth Megatherium americanum, whereas the later species had squarer and larger teeth. From...

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Anoplotherium

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fossil genera in the Americas in early palaeontological history such as Megatherium and Mammut, Palaeotherium and Anoplotherium were not found in surface-level...

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List of largest mammals

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attained much larger sizes prehistorically, the largest of which were Megatherium which, at an estimated average weight of 4.5 tonnes and standing height...

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