Mylodontinae
Videos
Mylodontinae is an extinct subfamily of ground sloths that lived from the Early Miocene to the Early Holocene epochs.
Skeleton, Natural History Museum, London DSCF0385
Synocnus comes
Megatherum DB
Glossotherium
Videos
Glossotherium is an extinct genus of large mylodontid ground sloths of the subfamily Mylodontinae. It represents one of the best-known members of the family, along with Mylodon and Paramylodon. Recons
Mylodontinae
…are the Mylodontinae with Mylodon as the type genus and the Lestodontinae, whose type genus is Lestodon, which sometimes also includes Paramylodon and Glossotherium (sometimes also listed as belonging to the tribes Mylodontini and Lestodontini. The subdivision of the terminal group of mylodonts into the Lestodontinae…
1913 restoration of G. robustum
Skull of Mylodon darwinii (top) compared to G. robustum (bottom)
G. robustum skull at the AMNH.