Thinobadistes
Thinobadistes | |
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T. segnis, Florida Museum of Natural History Fossil Hall at the University of Florida | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Pilosa |
Family: | †Mylodontidae |
Tribe: | † Lestodontini
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Genus: | †Thinobadistes Hay 1919 |
Species | |
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Thinobadistes is an extinct
Thinobadistes and island-hopped across the Central American Seaway from South America, where sloths in general first evolved.[2]
Description
Two specimens of Thinobadistes have been estimated to weigh 948 kg and 1066 kg each.[3]
History and taxonomy
The first reported discovery of Thinobadistes fossils came in 1887 when in Pleistocene deposits in
Texas Panhandle and Withlacoochee River.[6][5] Some of the younger and larger fossils were put into a new species, Thinobadistes wetzeli, which was also based on an astragalus found in Hemphillian deposits of the Withlacoochee River, Florida.[5]
Fossil distribution
Fossils of Thinobadistes segnis have only been found at 2 sites, both
Texas Panhandle.[5] Fossils from an unknown species were found in the youngest Thinobadistes-bearing deposits at Coffee Ranch in the Texas Panhandle.[5][7]
References
- ^ PaleoBiology Database: Thinobadistes, basic info
- ^ Tetrapod Zoology Archived 2011-03-18 at the Wayback Machine, Scienceblogs, Ten things you didn't know about sloths, by Darien Naish, University of Portsmouth January 23, 2007.
- S2CID 30660487.
- ^ a b c Hay, O. P. (1919). Descriptions of some mammalian and fish remains from Florida of probably Pleistocene age.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Webb, S. D. (1989). Osteology and relationships of Thinobadistes segnis, the first mylodont sloth in North America. Advances in neotropical mammalogy, 1989, 469-532.
- ^ a b Hulbert, R. C., Poyer, A. R., & Webb, S. D. (2002). Tyner Farm, a new early Hemphillian local fauna from north-central Florida. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22(3).
- ^ Dalquest, W. W. (1983). Mammals of the Coffee Ranch Local Fauna Hemphilian of Texas. Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin.