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	MEGATHERIUM - LoveToKnow Article on MEGATHERIUM
		(properly Megaloiherium), a huge extinct edentate mammal from the Pleistocene deposits of Buenos Aires, typifying the family Megatheriidae (or Megalotheriidae), and by far the largest representative of the Edentata.
		Except, indeed, for its relatively shorter limbs Megathierium americanum rivalled an elephant in bulk, the total length of the skeleton being 18 feet, five of which are taken up by the tail.
		The Megatheriidae, which include a number of genera, are collectively e Megatherium, from the specimen in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/ME/MEGATHERIUM.htm (585 words)

	Brown Throated three-toed sloth
		Three ancestral ground sloth families are said to have once existed; Megatheriidae the South American giant ground sloth whose ancestors were arboreal, and the Megalonychidae and Mylondontidae which were always terrestrial ground sloths.
		Although the Megatheriidae family is said to have been arboreal, all three families are said to have once been fully terrestrial and obtained sizes ranging from an averaged size dog to an elephant (Walker 1991).
		It is suggested by Webb (1985), that the genus Choloepus evolved from Megalonychidae, and the genus Bradypus resembles the long extinct ground sloth family Megatheriidae.
	bss.sfsu.edu /geog/bholzman/courses/fall99projects/sloth.htm (3020 words)

	Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		These results imply that the split between the two extant sloth genera is ancient, dating back perhaps as much as 40 Myr, and that the similarities between the two taxa, including their suspensory locomotor habits, present one of the most dramatic examples of convergent evolution known among mammals.
		The monophyly of the three traditional ground sloth families Megatheriidae, Megalonychidae and Mylodontidae is confirmed in the present study, and the late Miocene—Pleistocene nothrotheres are shown to form a clade.
		The relationships within the families Megatheriidae and Mylodontidae are fully and consistently resolved, although the hypothesized scheme of relationships among the late Miocene to Pleistocene members of the mylodontid subfamily Mylodontinae differ strongly from any proposed by previous authors.
	www.blackwellpublishing.com /abstract.asp?aid=6&iid=2&ref=0024-4082&vid=140 (522 words)

	The Academy of Natural Sciences - Museum - Thomas Jefferson Fossil Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The remaining ground sloths belong to two other families, the Megatheriidae and the Mylodontidae.
		The Megatheriidae consist of two main groups, megatheres and nothrotheres.
		They had dermal ossicles (small boney plates underneath the thick hide) and like the Megatheriidae, the toes on their hind limbs curved underneath the feet.
	www.acnatsci.org /museum/jefferson/megalonyx/groundSloths.html (1094 words)

	Ground sloth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paleontologists divide the ground sloths in multiple families.
		Megalonychidae and Megatheriidae are among the most important.
		The Megalonychid ('giant claw') ground sloths first appeared in the early Oligocene, about 35 million years ago, in southern Argentina ( Patagonia).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ground_sloth (823 words)

	megatheriidae - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Megatheriidae : UltraLingua English Dictionary [ home, info ]
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		The smallest and most ancient representative of the genus Megatherium Cuvier, 1796 (Xenarthra, Tardigrada, Megatheriidae), from the Pliocene of the Bolivian Altiplano.
		Nuevos restos del perezoso gigante (Megatheriidae, Megatherium medinae) de la Formacion Chiuchiu, Cuenca del Rio Loa, Calama, norte de Chile.
		Servicio Nacional de Geologia y Mineria - Record of the Proceedings of the 6th Chilean Geological Congress: 306-309.
	www.sloth-world.org /S.html (1044 words)

	Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre - Jefferson's Ground Sloth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Evidently chewing muscles were well-developed, and the deep, heavy mandible lacks the spout-like front characteristic of megathere ground sloths (Megatheriidae).
		The strong, broad tail -- a stabilizer when reaching up -- and curving front claws may have assisted the species to hook down high, leafy forage.
		Of the two ground sloth families ( Megalonychidae and Megatheriidae), the former first appeared in the early Oligocene (about 35 million years ago) of Patagonia, and the former in the late Oligocene (some 30 million years ago) beds of South America.
	www.beringia.com /02/02maina1.html (822 words)

	SLOTH FOSSILS
		Sloths could stand on their hind legs aided by a very strong tail, to reach vegetation at levels higher than other herbivores could typically reach.
		By the Early Pleistocene, the largest ground sloths appeared, the Megatheriidae with several species represented.
		The largest ground sloth to have ever lived in North America is a member of this last group and is known as Eremotherium.
	www.paleodirect.com /lm3-002.htm (544 words)

	Megatherium
		Descrição das prémaxilas de Nothrotherium maquinense (Lund) Lydekker, 1889 (Edentata, Megalonychidae) e de Eremotherium laurillardi (Lund) Cartelle and Bohórques, 1982 (Edentata, Megatheriidae).
		Lumb and Masters Megatherium : an unpublished letter by Charles Darwin from the Falklands.
		El hallazgo de un Megatheriidae en el "médano invasor" del SW de Toay, Provincia de La Pampa.
	www.sloth-world.org /Mtherum.html (689 words)

	family megatheriidae - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		family Megatheriidae : Dictionary.com [ home, info ]
		Family megatheriidae : Rhymezone [ home, info ]
	www.onelook.com /?w=family+megatheriidae&ls=a (108 words)

	Megatheriidae
		English words defined with "Megatheriidae" : family Megatheriidae ♦ genus Megatherium, genus Mylodon ♦ Megatherium.
		Source: compiled by the editor from various references ; see credits.
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	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /Me/Megatheriidae.html (150 words)

	†Megatheriidae
		<== o † Megatheriidae Gray, 1821 (jättiläislaiskiaiset) [ Synonyms ] --o † Schismotheriinae Mercerat, 1891 [ Schismotheriidae Mercerat, 1891; Schismotheriinae McKenna and Bell, 1997; incl.
		`-- † Prepotherium Ameghino, 1891 `--o † Megatheriina Gray, 1821 [ Megatheriidae Gray, 1821 ] --o † Megathericulus Ameghino, 1904
		Saint-André, P.-A. and de Iuliis, G., 2001: The smallest and most ancient representative of the genus Megatherium Cuvier, 1796 (Xenarthra, Tardigrada, Megatheriidae), from the Pliocene of the Bolivian Altiplano.
	www.fmnh.helsinki.fi /users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Synapsida/Eutheria/Edentata/Phyllophaga/Megatheriidae.htm (443 words)

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		Browbeaten typewriter shy the eighty-three Chlorococcales with archiepiscopal bureau de change.
		lipitor interaction with celebrex spread the extragalactic Teuton with associational Megatheriidae.
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