Paramylodon
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Paramylodon is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Mylodontidae endemic to North America during the Pliocene through Pleistocene epochs, living from around ~4.9 Mya–12,000 years ago.
Harland’s ground sloth La brea
The first fossil finds of Paramylodon published by Richard Harlan in 1831
Skull of Mylodon garmani, a synonym of Paramylodon harlani
Skulls of Mylodon (top) and Glossotherium (bottom)
Late Pleistocene extinctions
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The Late Pleistocene to the beginning of the Holocene saw the extinction of the majority of the world's megafauna, typically defined as animal species having body masses of 45 kg or more, which result
Paramylodon
…suggestions that Paramylodon may have engaged in burrowing. Like other ground sloths, Paramylodon became extinct around 14–12,000 years ago as part of the Late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions of most large mammals across the Americas. Paramylodon overlapped in time with Paleoindians, the earliest human inhabitants of the Americas, who may…
Late Pleistocene in northern Spain, by Mauricio Antón. Left to right: wild horse, woolly mammoth, reindeer, cave lion, woolly rhinoceros
Mural of the La Brea Tar Pits by Charles R. Knight, including sabertooth cats (Smilodon fatalis, left) ground sloths (Paramylodon harlani, right) and Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi, background)
The proportion of extinct large mammal species (more than or equal to 10 kg (22 lb)) in each country during the last 132,000 years, only counting extinctions earlier than 1000 years BP (Note, Gray Areas on continents indicate land entirely covered in Glacial Ice at the time, and on islands, that man had not yet reached by this time i.e. no data either way)
Environment of what is now White Sands National Park in New Mexico, with Columbian mammoths, a ground sloth, dire wolves, lions, camels, and saber-toothed cats.