Biology:Neonematherium
| Neonematherium | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Pilosa |
| Family: | †Scelidotheriidae |
| Genus: | †Neonematherium Ameghino 1904 |
| Species: | †N. flabellatum
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| Binomial name | |
| †Neonematherium flabellatum Ameghino 1904
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Neonematherium is an extinct genus of scelidotheriid ground sloths that lived in Argentina ,[1] Chile , and Colombia during the Early to Late Miocene. Fossils have been found in the Honda Group of Colombia,[2] and the Río Frías Formation of Chile.[3]
Taxonomy
Neonematherium is a member of the Scelidotheriidae, a family of ground sloths known from the Oligocene, Miocene Pliocene, Pleistocene, and the Early Holocene epochs and are characterized by an elongated snout. Scelidotheres themselves part are usually placed as a subfamily of the Mylodontidae, although they are sometimes considered a separate family, Scelidotheriidae.[4]
Below is a phylogenetic tree of the Scelidotheriidae, based on the work of Nieto et al. 2021, showing the position of Neonematherium.[5]
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References
- ↑ Miño-Boilini, A. R.; Tomassini, R. L.; Contreras, V. H. (2014-06-30). "Primer registro de Scelidotheriinae Ameghino (Xenartha, Mylodontidae) del Piso/Edad Chasiquense (Mioceno tardío) de la Argentina" (in es). Estudios Geológicos 70 (1): e007. doi:10.3989/egeol.41551.291. ISSN 1988-3250. https://estudiosgeol.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeol/article/view/899.
- ↑ Carlini, A. A., Vizcaíno, S. F. & Scillato-Yané, G. J. 1997. Armored Xenarthrans: a unique taxonomic and ecologic assemblage. In Kay, R. F., Madden, R. H., Cifelli, R. L. & Flynn, J. J. (Edits.). Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics. The Miocene Fauna of La Venta, Colombia. Smithsonian Institution Press. Pp. 213–226.
- ↑ Marshall, Larry G. (1990-01-01). "Fossil marsupialla from the type Friasian Land Mammal Age (Miocene), Alto Rio Cisnes, Aisen, Chile" (in en-US). Andean Geology 17 (1): 19–55. doi:10.5027/andgeoV17n1-a02. ISSN 0718-7106. http://www.andeangeology.cl/index.php/revista1/article/view/V17n1-a02.
- ↑ Presslee, S.; Slater, G. J.; Pujos, F.; Forasiepi, A. M.; Fischer, R.; Molloy, K.; Mackie, M.; Olsen, J. V. et al. (2019). "Palaeoproteomics resolves sloth relationships". Nature Ecology & Evolution 3 (7): 1121–1130. doi:10.1038/s41559-019-0909-z. PMID 31171860. Bibcode: 2019NatEE...3.1121P. http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/147061/1/5426_3_merged_1554730549.pdf. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
- ↑ Nieto, Gastón L.; Haro, J. Augusto; McDonald, H. Gregory; Miño-Boilini, Ángel R.; Tauber, Adan A.; Krapovickas, Jerónimo M.; Fabianelli, Maximiliano N.; Rosas, Federico M. (2021-06-01). "The Skeleton of the Manus of Scelidotherium (Xenarthra, Mylodontidae) Specimens from the Pleistocene of the Province of Córdoba, Argentina, and its Systematic Implications" (in en). Journal of Mammalian Evolution 28 (2): 221–243. doi:10.1007/s10914-020-09520-x. ISSN 1573-7055. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-020-09520-x. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
Wikidata ☰ Q113876473 entry
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