genus Megatherium

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Noun1.genus Megatherium - type genus of the Megatheriidaegenus Megatherium - type genus of the Megatheriidae  
Megatherium
mammal genus - a genus of mammals
family Megatheriidae, Megatheriidae - extinct ground sloths
ground sloth, megathere - gigantic extinct terrestrial sloth-like mammal of the Pliocene and Pleistocene in America
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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.
El registro de Megatherium (Xenarthra, Tardigrada) en Mendoza (Argentina): aspectos taxonomicos, cronologicos y paleoecologicos
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