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Megatherium americanum Cuvier, 1796
The Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom
Details
- Title: Megatherium americanum Cuvier, 1796
- Specific epithet: americanum
- Scientific name authorship: Cuvier, 1796
- Order: Edentata
- Locality: Uruguay
- Latest period or highest system: Quaternary
- Latest era or highest erathem: Cenozoic
- Latest epoch or Highest series: Pleistocene
- Latest eon or highest eonothem: Phanerozoic
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Higher geography: South America; Uruguay
- Higher classification: Animalia; Mammalia; Edentata; Megatheriidae
- Genus: Megatherium
- Family: Megatheriidae
- Earliest period or lowest system: Quaternary
- Earliest era or lowest erathem: Cenozoic
- Earliest epoch or lowest series: Pleistocene
- Earliest eon or Lowest eonothem: Phanerozoic
- Country: Uruguay
- Continent: South America
- Class: Mammalia
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