Megatheroid

Meg`a`the´roid

(Paleon.) One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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The great size of the bones of the Megatheroid animals, including the Megatherium, Megalonyx, Scelidotherium, and Mylodon, is truly wonderful.

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nov.: An unusual megatheroid sloth from the middle Miocene of Quebrada Honda (Bolivia).

Noticias sobre la ocurrencia de dientes supernumerarios en perezosos de dos dedos, Choloepus didactylus y C. hoffmanni

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