Nothrotherium
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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: | †Nothrotherium Lydekker, 1889 |
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Nothrotherium is an
in smaller size and differences in skull and hind leg bones.Taxonomy
Nothrotherium is derived from the Greek nothros [νωθρός], meaning "lazy" or "slothful," and therion [θηρίον], "beast", and the species N. maquinense is named after the
Nothrotheriops shastensis, which was later moved to Nothrotheriops
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Description
Analysis of a
xerophytic leaves and fruits,[3] and it is sometimes thought to have been an inhabitant of open, peripheral forests, possibly having a semi-arboreal lifestyle, like the contemporaneous Cuban ground sloths and Diabolotherium.[4] Plant material in the Gruta dos Brejoes coprolite yielded a date of 12,200 ± 120 yr BP.[5][6]
References
- ^ Amson et al., 2016, p.12
- ^ Wallace, Alfred Russel (1876). The Geographical Distribution of Animals. Harper and brothers – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Duarte, L.; Souza, M. M. (1991). "Restos de vegetais conservados em coprólitos de mamíferos (Palaeolama sp. e Nothrotherium maquinense (Lund, Lydekker) na Gruta dos Brejoes, BA". Boletim de Resumos do XII Congresso Brasileiro de Paleotologia: 74.
- ISBN 9780226195421.
- JSTOR 1383089.
- PMID 16085711.
Bibliography
- Amson, Eli; Juan D. Carrillo, and Carlos Jaramillo. 2016. Neogene sloth assemblages (Mammalia, Pilosa) of the Cocinetas Basin (La Guajira, Colombia): Implications for the Great American Biotic Interchange. Palaeontology _. 1-20. Accessed 2017-03-31.
Further reading
- Classification of Mammals by Malcolm C. McKenna and Susan K. Bell
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