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FAMILY Megalonychidae
Author: | Ameghino, 1889. | Citation: | Acta Acad. Nac. Cienc. Cordoba, Buenos Aires, 6: 690. | Comments: | Includes Choloepus and approximately 12 genera of extinct sloths, some of which survived to the Holocene on Caribbean islands. Choloepus was formerly included in Bradypodidae (see Hoffstetter, 1969; Patterson and Pascual, 1968a) or Choloepidae (see Honacki et al., 1982). Placed in Megalonychidae by Webb (1985) and Wetzel (1985a). |
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