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Megatherium americanum

author: Raul Lunia/Novapix

reference: t-din06-10401

Image Size 300 DPI: 21 * 12 cm

Megatherium was a genus of large ground sloths endemic to Central America and South America. They lived from the Pliocene through Pleistocene existing approximately 5.3 million years. The largest species, Megatherium americanum of the late Pleistocene, had the size of an elephant.

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2012 - ANIMAL - CENOZOIC - EARTH - FAUNA - HISTORY OF EARTH - ILLUSTRATION - MAMMAL - MEGATHERIUM - PLEISTOCENE -