Fossils of Eremotherium eomigrans are not found as widespread as the later-occuring Eremotherium laurillardi which is known from North, Central and South America in the late Pleistocene (Cartelle and De Iuliis, 1995). The heel and outside foot were responsible for carrying the massive weight of the ancient sloth. At least in Florida the temporal range ofEremotherium eomigrans is late Blancan to Irvingtonian (Ir) 2, with the first appearance ofEremotherium laurillardi in the early Rancholabrean (Ra1). The title for the largest sloth that ever lived is currently shared between Eremotherium and Megatherium, two prehistoric giant ground sloths that weighed in at around 4 tonnes (4.4 tons), and when standing on two legs could tower to more than 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in) in height.For a comparative scale, a modern three-toed tree sloth (Bradypus spp.) [Image will be Uploaded Soon] What is Megatherium? It had an average length of 74cm, the largest bone found so far was 89.5 centimetres (35.2in) long and 45.1 centimetres (17.8in) wide. 3) and a larger lesser tubercle on the humerus than in Eremotherium laurillardi (De Iuliis and Cartelle, 1999). [31] However, noting that sloths lack the carnassials typical of predators and that traces of bone are absent from the many preserved deposits of sloth dung, Paul Martin has described this proposal as "fanciful". [12] Discoveries of extensive material of Eremotherium at sites such as those at Nova Friburgo in Brazil and Daytona Beach in Florida further prove that the two were synonymous and lacked any major differences between populations. The major diagnostic feature of Eremotherium eomigrans is its manus (or hand; Fig. The fifth finger had only two phalanges and consequently no claw was formed there. However, in ancient times, sloths were quite different. [6] It was not until 1977 that further analysis demonstrated that the "femur" was actually a clavicle from Eremotherium. [21] It was not until 1952 that he recognized similarities to Spillmann's Eremotherium and synonymized the two. Distinctive, ridge-like muscle attachments on the middle shaft were typical. The 13C values of Megatherium indicate mixed diet of C3-C4 plants with higher content of the latter in Pessegueiro Creek, whereas the 13C values of Eremotherium indicate C3-dominated diets . Common Name: Wandering giant ground sloth. 46314), Glyptodon juanajuatense Duges 1882 (no. Megatherium (/ m r i m / meg--THEER-ee-m; from Greek mga 'great' + theron () 'beast') is an extinct genus of ground sloths endemic to South America that lived from the Early Pliocene through the end of the Pleistocene. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15:830-841. Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology 24 (2), 2012, pp. In addition, a third outgrowth protruded diagonally upwards. The articular surfaces as the point of attachment of the cervical spine curved far outwards and were relatively larger than in tree sloths and numerous other ground sloths. Afd. Eremotherium is an extinct genus of group living ground sloth of the family Megatheriidae, endemic to northern South America, Central America, and parts of southern North America during the Pleistocene epoch. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 127, 1999, pp. The different expression of high-crownedness in the two large ground sloths is probably rather to be sought in adaptation to divergent habitatsmore tropical lowlands in Eremotherium and more temperate regions in Megatherium. Megatherium americanum might have been a herbivore, but it was so enormous and powerful that any singular predator would not have been able to bring one down. Megatherium americanum was one of the few giant ground sloths, and its closest competition as the largest ground sloth ever is Eremotherium, which weighs roughly the same. Megatheriidae range.png 337 300; 10 KB. A complete skull measured 65cm in length and was up to 33cm wide at the zygomatic arches. Ground sloths looked like modern tree sloths, with longer forelimbs than short hind limbs. In the area of the back teeth it reached 19 cm in height. In sloths with particularly . [56], The disappearance of Eremotherium coincides with the Quaternary Extinction Event, which saw the arrival of humans in the Americas and the extinction of many megafauna, large or giant animals of an area, habitat, or geological period, extinct and/or extant that were larger than or a comparable size to humans, such as mammoths, glyptodonts, and other ground sloths. It roamed from the Tarija Basin in Bolivia to Yantac in Peru. Megatheres displayed deeper jaws than other sloths. Math. Senckenbergiana biologica 83 (1), 2003, pp. guanajatense. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 378, 2013, pp. However, Eremotherium was able to stand up on its hind legs and pull branches and twigs with its hands, for example to reach the foliage of tall trees for feeding,[38] as well as defensive strikes with its long claws were possible. The forehead line was clearly straight and not as wavy as in Megatherium. Hoffstetter, R. (1949). The genus has three species: E. laurillardi, E. rusconi, and E. eomigrans. [2] In 1842, Richard Harlan named a new species of the turtle Chelonia, Chelonia couperi, based on a supposed femur, or thigh bone, that had been found in the Brunswick Canal in Glynn County, Georgia and dated to the Pleistocene. [54][26] Carbon isotopes and stereo microwear analysis suggest that an individual from the Late Pleistocene (34,705-33,947 cal yr BP), of Gois, Brazil, was a mixed feeder, suggesting a high proportion of shrubs and trees, this is in contrast to the presumed diet from specimens from Northeast Brazil, which had a diet of C4 herbaceous plants. [27][36][37][34], Almost all of the poscranial skeleton is known. [5], Like other sloths, Megatherium lacked the enamel, deciduous dentition and dental cusp patterns of other mammals. At up six meters long Eremotherium rivalled even the world famous Megatherium for size. However unlike Megatherium , Eremotherium fossils are also known in the United States, making Eremotherium one of the largest ground sloths in North America. The skull of Eremotherium was large and massive, but lighter in build compared to Megatherium. Emily L Lindsey, Erick X Lopez Reyes, Gordon E Matzke, Karin A Rice, and H Gregory McDonald: A monodominant late-Pleistocene megafauna locality from Santa Elena, Ecuador: Insight on the biology and behavior of giant ground sloths. Megatherium ("Great Beast") was a genus of elephant-sized ground sloths endemic to Central America and South America that lived from the Pliocene through Pleistocene existing approximately 5.3 million years. The Fossil Vertebrates of Florida. It would pull itself upright to sit on its haunches or to stand and then tugged at plants with its feet, digging them up with the five sharp claws on each foot. It was reassembled by museum employee Juan Bautista Bru, who also drew the skeleton and some individual bones. However, they are uncertain about the magnitude of the effects of human hunters on the extinction of the giant sloths. During the event known as the Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI), several xenarthran taxa migrated to North America before and after the formation of the land bridge between the two continents at the Isthmus of Panama 3 million year ago. ): The Biology of the Xenarthra. The teeth are hypsodont and bilophodont, and the sagittal section of each loph is triangular with a sharp edge. [citation needed]. [47][48] Especially in Tanque Loma, the individuals recorded are composed of at least 15 adults and six juveniles. However, Eremotherium laurillardi, which is thought to have evolved from Eremotherium eomigrans, had a MCC with a fused trapezoid, and lost two digits in its manus. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 117, 2022, p.103899, doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2022.103899, Mrio Andr Trindade Dantas, Rodrigo Parisi Dutra, Alexander Cherkinsky, Daniel Costa Fortier, Luciana Hiromi Yoshino Kamino, Mario Alberto Cozzuol, Adauto de Souza Ribeiro and Fabiana Silva Vieira: Paleoecology and radiocarbon dating of the Pleistocene megafauna of the Brazilian Intertropical Region. The nasal bone was shortened compared to the skull of Megatherium, giving it an overall truncated cone appearance. These giant sloths had narrow snouts and dentition, indicating a tough and fibrous diet. The entire upper row of teeth grew up to 22 centimetres (8.7in) long, while the lower reached up to 21 centimetres (8.3in). The second variation has a MCC composed of just the fused metacarpal 1 and trapezium (Fig. Anatomically, Eremotherium eomigrans is very similar to Eremotherium laurillardi, and the former species may be ancestral to the latter. [38] The humerus represented a long tube with a bulky lower joint end. Eremotherlium laurillardi has only 3 digits (they have lost digits 1 and 2) and another closely related megatheriid giant ground sloth, Megatherium americanum, has 4 digits with a loss of digit 1. Eremotherium eomigrans is an extinct species of giant ground sloth that belongs to a third family, the Megatheriidae, that first migrated to North America in the late Pliocene or very early Pleistocene (Hulbert, 2001). 1-436 (pp. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 26, 2008, pp. Megatherium was adapted to temperate, arid or semiarid open habitats. The former is . While this alone would not likely have caused its extinction, it has been cited as a possible contributing factor. All of these genera belong to the subfamily Megatheriinae, which includes the largest and most derived sloths. Feet are twisted inward when walking ( McDonald 1977) The name means great beast from America. This giant sloth lived in the Middle Pleistocene until the Holocene period. nov.), its habitat and its way of life. Large individuals of Eremotherium may have weighed as much as 3 tons (Hulbert, 2001). Both genera reached the size of today's elephants and were among the largest mammals in the Americas. However, it is one of up to 80 different genera of ground sloths assigned by paleontologists, which belong to seven families. Largest sloth ever. Because many specimens of Eremotherium eomigrans have been found, there is some understanding of variation within the species. In. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 127:495-515. 269-280, Sergio F Vizcano, M Susana Bargo and Guillermo H Cassini: Dental occlusal surface area in relation to body mass, food habits and other biological features in fossil xenarthrans. Megatherium americanum was endemic to South America when the continent was isolated. The latter genus belongs to the more distantly related Mylodontidae and was probably a specialised grazer. [14] Analysis of wear and the biomechanics of the chewing muscles suggests that they chewed vertically. Fields, S. E., H. G. McDonald, J. L. Knight, and A. E. Sanders. in Eremotherium has generated further confusion. The theory that saber-toothed tigers hunted Megatherium is often questioned due to the size of these mammals. This is based on the size distribution of individuals, which seems to indicate that adult individuals of a larger size and of a smaller size existed within the same population (De Iluiis and Cartelle, 1999). The world's largest sloth was the Florida ground sloth Eremotherium eomigrans, which existed from 4.9 million years ago to 300,000 years ago during the Pleistocene Epoch. The climate got warmer and wetter, and with it, the disappearances of the giant sloths food source. The shinbone and fibula were only fused together at the upper end and not also at the lower end as in Megatherium. In most mammals in which this is the case, the males are larger than the females, but in living tree sloths, females are slightly larger than males. They are typified by strong thick bones and joints. However, the skull is relatively gracile, the teeth are uniform and high-crowned. The ground sloths (Pilosa) of South Carolina. Abstract. Fossil records show that this sloth lived around 2 to 1.6 million years ago up until approximately 11,000 years ago. Eremotherium is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Megatheriidae, endemic to northern South America, Central America, and parts of southern North America during the Pleistocene epoch. Based on the estimated strength and mechanical advantage of its biceps, it has been proposed that Megatherium could have overturned adult glyptodonts (large, armored xenarthrans, related to armadillos) as a means of scavenging or hunting these animals. The giant ground sloth was a herbivore, feeding on leaves such as yuccas, agaves and grasses. However, these giant sloths were slow and would have been outrun by numerous prey, and they were also too large to hide or sneak up on smaller animals. When standing on all fours, it was taller than an adult male African bush elephant . Evidently, individuals with these two variations in the wrist and hand bones existed at the same time in the same populations, but the first type which had an MCC with the fused trapezoid was more common in the Blancan and less common later in the Irvingtonian. Less well developed, on the other hand, were the epaxial muscles, which could cause the tail to straighten up. According to reports, Megatherium ground sloths were herbivores like their living descendants, the tree sloths. The giant megatheriine ground sloth Eremotherium eomigrans is described based on remains from the late Blancan to early Irvingtonian (late Pliocene to early Pleistocene) of Florida. Hodgson, W. B., & Habersham, J. C. (1846). He published on the subject again in 1804; this paper was republished in his book Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupdes. The type locality is Haile 7C, Alachua County, Florida (De Iuliis and Cartelle, 1999). [4], Megatherium americanum was one of the largest animals in its habitat, weighing up to 4t (8,800lb),[5][6] with a shoulder height of 2.1m (6ft 11in) and length of 6m (20ft) from head to tail. Megatherium vs Eremotherium. It lived from 4.9 mya 11,000 years ago existing (as a genus) for approximately 4.889 million years. Beitrge zur Kenntnis eines neuen gravigraden Riesensteppentieres (Eremotherium carolinenese gen. et. ): The Biology of the Xenarthra. The MCC in one variation consists of a fusion of the metacarpal 1, trapezium, and the trapezoid bones (Fig. The southernmost discovery was in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande Do Sul, while further south in the Pampas and in mountainous states, the close relative Megatherium lived. [citation needed], Megatherium had a robust skeleton with a large pelvic girdle and a broad muscular tail. Only two valid species are known, Eremotherium laurillardi and E. eomigrans, the former was named by prolific Danish paleontologist Peter Lund in 1842 based on a tooth of a juvenile individual that had been collected from Pleistocene deposits in caves in Lagoa Santa, Brazil alongside fossils of thousands of other megafauna. [1] The first published discovery was only a year after M. mirabile was discovered, when portions of 2 teeth that had been also collected from Skidaway Island were referred to Megatherium later in 1823 by Dr. Samuel L. Sloths are small mammals famous for their low energy, extensive sleeping habit, long claws, and slow movement, moving only as far as 40 yards daily. A collection of dinosaurs and other awesome creatures that are now extinct. The standard answer is "about 10,000 years ago". 2019 based on lower molariform and astragalus morphology:[67].mw-parser-output table.clade{border-spacing:0;margin:0;font-size:100%;line-height:100%;border-collapse:separate;width:auto}.mw-parser-output table.clade table.clade{width:100%;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-label{min-width:0.2em;width:0.1em;padding:0 0.15em;vertical-align:bottom;text-align:center;border-left:1px solid;border-bottom:1px solid;white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-label::before,.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-slabel::before{content:"\2060 "}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-fixed-width{overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-fixed-width:hover{overflow:visible}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-label.first{border-left:none;border-right:none}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-label.reverse{border-left:none;border-right:1px solid}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-slabel{padding:0 0.15em;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;border-left:1px solid;white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-slabel:hover{overflow:visible}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-slabel.last{border-left:none;border-right:none}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-slabel.reverse{border-left:none;border-right:1px solid}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-bar{vertical-align:middle;text-align:left;padding:0 0.5em;position:relative}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-bar.reverse{text-align:right;position:relative}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-leaf{border:0;padding:0;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-leafR{border:0;padding:0;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output table.clade td.clade-leaf.reverse{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output table.clade:hover span.linkA{background-color:yellow}.mw-parser-output table.clade:hover span.linkB{background-color:green}, Finds of Eremotherium are widespread, but are limited to the tropical and subtropical lowland regions of the Americas. Nobu Tamura email:[emailprotected] http://spinops.blogspot.com/ / CC BY-SA 4.0 License. Two very different size groups are represented by full grown adult individuals, presumably representing sexual dimorphism. In: Sergio F. Vizcano and WJ Loughry (eds. [26] Species of Megatherium became larger over time, with the largest species, M. americanum of the Late Pleistocene, reaching the size of an African elephant. Load more. Although it was primarily a quadruped, its trackways show that it was capable of bipedal locomotion. The crown process rose up to 27 centimetres (11in), and the articular process was only slightly lower. Finds of Eremotherium are common and widespread, with fossils being found as far north as South Carolina in the United States and as far south as Rio Grande Do Sul, and many complete skeletons have been unearthed. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(4), 1995, pp. Lund, P. W. (1840). They both weighed roughly four tons and had similar lengths. Megatherium Americanum Vs Arctotherium Angustidens | Largest Sloth Vs Largest Bear - YouTube Megatherium vs arctotherium, who would win in a fight? 1995. The oldest finds known so far come from the US state of Florida and belong to the more uncommon species E. eomigrans, which were found in Haile in a water-filled doline (locality 7c), 6km northeast of Newberry in Alachua County. 79-94, Diego Brandoni, Alfredo A. Carlini, Francois Pujos, and Gustavo J. Scillato-Yan: The pes of Pyramiodontherium bergi (Moreno & Mercerat, 1891) (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Phyllophaga): The most complete pes of a Tertiary Megatheriinae. Both genera reached the size of today's elephants and were among the largest mammals in the Americas. A possible indication human altercation is a tooth of Eremotherium that may had been edited by Paleoindians was unearthed from a doline on the site of the So-Jos farm in the Brazilian state of Sergipe. At night, they could also have slept in caves. [citation needed] The amount of hunting by Paleoindians enacted on Eremotherium is a subject of incomplete, partly controversial, scientific discourse, but joint finds of Eremotherium and early human inhabitants of the region are very rare. [8] Today, the teeth are considered to be from a juvenile of E. laurillardi and adults reached or exceeded the size of M. 46310), Eremotherium juanajuatense Duges 1882 (no. The end of the Ice Age brought global climate change, giving way to heavily forested areas, amongst other changes. This introduced some carnivores to South America, while some animals endemic to the south migrated to North America. Eremotherium eomigrans and Eremotherium laurillardi are also probably more closely related to each other than either is to Megatherium based on their shared characteristics of a rugose ectotympanic bone on the skull and the contiguous nature of the articular facet for the atlas (first cervical) vertebra on the axis (second cervical) vertebra (De Iuliis and Cartelle, 1999). Kommissionsverlag von E. Dugs, A. He published his first paper on the subject in 1796, a transcript of a previous lecture at the French Academy of Sciences. Copyright Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, A new giant megatheriine ground sloth (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Megatheriidae) from the late Blancan to early Irvingtonian of Florida, Charlotte CountyMcQueen Shell Pit; Port Charlotte Area, Hendry CountyCaloosahatchee River-Labelle; SWFWMD Borrow Pit, Hillsborough CountyLeisey Shell Pit 2; Leisey Shell Pit 3; Leisey Shell Pit 3B, Lee CountyBallards Pit 2; Lehigh Acres Pit, Polk CountyHookers Prairie Mine; Nichols Mine; Palmetto Mine; Payne Creek Mine; Pool Branch Site, Peace River Mine; Phosphoria Mine; Silver City Mine, Editors Name: Richard C. Hulbert Jr. and Natali Valdes. WATCH: Sharks biting alligators, the most epic lion battles, and MUCH more. This differs markedly from Megatherium, in which the height of the mandible increased not only in absolute terms, but also relatively in relation to the length of the dentition. 2D). Blik paa Brasiliens Dyreverden fr Sidste Jordomvaeltning. [25], The rhinoceros-sized Promegatherium of the Miocene is suggested to be the ancestor of Megatherium. The T-Rex was considerably larger (around 10 - 15 tons, compared to the Megatherium at 4 or 5 tons) and probably faster, but the strength and claws of a Megatherium would have made it a very powerful opponent. University Press of Florida, 2008, pp. Eremotherium eomigrans De Iuliis and Cartelle, 1999. [26][27][28] In any case, it is one of the largest land-dwelling mammals of that time in the Americas, along with the proboscideans that migrated from Eurasia. It lived from 4.9 mya 11,000 years ago existing (as a genus) for approximately 4.889 million years. It is believed that xenarthrans branched off from the rest of placental mammals earlier than any other clade within Mammalia, and are thus a very old lineage. [2] New species in the genus Megatherium, M. urbinai and M. celendinense, have been described in 2004 and 2006, respectively. They were all found in close association in a single horizon, and they are interpreted as being contemporary with each other. There are no known fossils belonging to the genusEremotherium from the Ir3 interval in Florida, from about 600 to 250 thousand years ago. Megatherium, also known as the giant ground sloth, is an extinct species of ground sloth that lived in South America during the Pliocene and Pleistocene. DeviantArt Facebook DeviantArt Instagram DeviantArt Twitter. [1], Fossils from South America were first described by Danish paleontologist and founder of Brazilian paleontology Peter Wilhelm Lund when he established a new species of Megatherium based on two teeth (specimen number ZMUC 1130 and 1131) from Lapa Vermella, a cave in the valley of the Rio de la Velhas in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais under the name Megatherium laurillardi, the first named species now assigned to Eremotherium. Eremotherium lived in the southern North America, Central America, and northern South America from the Pliocene, around 5.3 million years ago, to the end of the Late Pleistocene, around 10,000 years ago. Recent reports (Faure et al., 2014; Gurin and Faure, 2000, 2008) describe the existence, in intertropical Brazil, of a small ("dwarf") megatheriine sloth, Eremotherium laurillardi (Lund, 1842), and a giant-sized megatheriine, Eremotherium rusconii (Schaub, 1935). In the area of the back teeth it reached 19cm in height. Hulbert Jr., R. C. 2001. [16], Based on Bru's illustrations, comparative anatomist Georges Cuvier determined the relationships and appearance of Megatherium. The thickness of the curvature of the lower margin of the mandible increased significantly in the course of individual development, but the ratio of the height of the mandibular body to the length of the tooth row remained largely the same. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51 (1), 2006, pp. Senckenbergiana biologica 83, 2003, pp. [3] In his 1796 paper, Cuvier assigned the fossil the scientific name Megatherium americanum. At the anterior edge of the lower jaw there was a strong mental foramen. The phalanx (the third phalanx) of the third and fourth fingers had a long and pointedly curved shape, which suggests correspondingly long claws. Fossils have come from more than 130 sites. Wikipedia Loves Art participant Kamraman / CC BY-SA 2.5 License. VI Jornadas Paleontolgicas y I Simposio de Paleontologa en el Sureste de Mxico: 100 years de paleontologa en Chiapas, 2012, p. 50. [20] The oldest-known remains of Megatherium from the Pampas dates to the late Pliocene, around 3.58 million years ago. Eremotherium belonged to the same family and genus, but was a separate species. [25] Weight estimates vary, with a range of 36.55 tonnes (6,60014,400lb). Various other smaller species belonging to the subgenus Pseudomegatherium are known from the Andes. Advertisement In these two variants, the shape of articulation surface of the second metacarpal with the MCC also differs based on the type of MCC the individual possessed. The oldest fossils come from the Pliocene of the southern United States in North America, suggesting that the species instead evolved there before colonizing South America. Characteristic of Eremotherium was its robust physique with comparatively long limbs and front and hind feet especially for later representatives- three fingers. 9, 137208. [58][59], Eremotherium is a genus of the extinct ground sloth family Megatheriidae, which includes large to very large sloths in the group Folivora, which, together with the Megalonychidae and the Nothrotheriidae, form the superfamily Megatherioidea. [8] Lund diagnosed the species based on the size of the teeth, which were only a quarter the size of Megatherium americanum, the greatest representative of Megatherium, and he believed that it was a tapir-sized animal. 495-515, Virginia L Naples and Robert K McAfee: Reconstruction of the cranial musculature and masticatory function of the Pleistocene panamerican ground sloth Eremotherium laurillardi (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Megatheriidae). Megatherium vs arctotherium, who. Eremotherium (from Greek for "steppe" or "desert beast": "steppe or desert" and "beast") is an extinct genus of giant ground sloth in the family Megatheriidae. Megatherium shared its grassland habitat with the saber-toothed . 601-610, Cstor Cartelle and Gerardo De Iuliis: Eremotherium laurillardi (Lund) (Xenarthra, Megatheriidae), the Panamerican giant ground sloth: Taxonomic aspects of the ontogeny of skull and dentition. 525-537, doi:10.1007/s10914-017-9410-0, Bruno Andrs Than-Marchese, Luis Enrique Gomez-Perez, Jess Albert Diaz-Cruz, Gerardo Carbot-Chanona and Marco Antonio Coutio-Jos: Una nueva localidad con restos de Eremotherium laurillardi (Xenarthra: Megateriidae) in Chiapas, Mexico: possible evidence de gregarismo en la especie. [1][2][3] The fossils were not described until 1852 however, when American paleontologist named Megatherium mirabile, based on the specimens (specimen numbers USNM 825-832 + 837) but the species has since been synonymized with Eremotherium laurillardi. M. tarijense has been regarded as a medium-sized Megatherium species, larger than M. altiplanicum, but smaller than M. americanum. 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