Lakukullus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Pilosa |
| Family: | †Nothrotheriidae |
| Subfamily: | † Nothrotheriinae
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| Genus: | †Lakukullus Pujos et al., 2014 |
| Species: | †L. anatisrostratus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Lakukullus anatisrostratus Pujos et al., 2014
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Lakukullus is an extinct genus of nothrotheriid ground sloths that lived during the Middle Miocene around 13.8 to 11.8 million years ago of what is now Bolivia.[1]
Etymology
The genus name, Lakukullus, is composed of "Laku’kullu", which means "wild animal of heights" in Aymara, a native Bolivian language, which refers to the locality the specimen was found. The specific name is derived from the Latin word "anatisrostratum", which means "duck beak" in reference to the aspect of the snout appearing physically similar to the bill of an aquatic bird.[1]
Classification
Lakukullus is a
Nothrotheriinae, which includes, among others, the better known forms of the Pleistocene such as Nothrotherium from South America and Nothrotheriops from North America.[5][7] In addition, Lakukullus is also one of the most basal known members of the subfamily Nothrotheriinae.[8]
Below is a phylogenetic tree of the Nothrotheriinae based on Varela et al. 2019.[8]
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References
- ^ S2CID 86724719.
- ^ H. Gregory McDonald und Gerardo de Iuliis: Fossil history of sloths. In: Sergio F. Vizcaíno und W. J. Loughry (Hrsg.): The Biology of the Xenarthra. University Press of Florida, 2008, S. 39–55.
- ^ Frédéric Delsuc, Melanie Kuch, Gillian C. Gibb, Emil Karpinski, Dirk Hackenberger, Paul Szpak, Jorge G. Martínez, Jim I. Mead, H. Gregory McDonald, Ross D.E. MacPhee, Guillaume Billet, Lionel Hautier und Hendrik N. Poinar: Ancient mitogenomes reveal the evolutionary history and biogeography of sloths. Current Biology 29 (12), 2019, S. 2031–2042, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.05.043
- S2CID 38722942.
- ^ from the original on 12 October 2018.
- S2CID 258688117.
- S2CID 55321577.
- ^ PMID 30239971.
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