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Extinct genus of ground sloth
Miocnus is an
extinct
genus of
ground sloths of the family
Megalocnidae endemic to
Cuba during the
Pleistocene and very early
Holocene epochs, living from 1.8
Mya —11,000 years ago, existing for approximately
1.789 million years .
[2]
Taxonomy
Miocnus was named by Matthew (1931). Its type is Miocnus antillensis . It was assigned to
Megalonychidae by Matthew (1931) based on morphological considerations,
[3] and subsequently moved to Megalocnidae by Presslee et al. (2019) based on molecular sequence data.
[1]
Fossil distribution
Sites and ages of specimen (complete list):
References
^
a
b Presslee, S.; Slater, G. J.; Pujos, F.; Forasiepi, A. M.; Fischer, R.; Molloy, K.; Mackie, M.; Olsen, J. V.; Kramarz, A.; Taglioretti, M.; Scaglia, F.; Lezcano, M.; Lanata, J. L.; Southon, J.; Feranec, R.; Bloch, J.; Hajduk, A.; Martin, F. M.; Gismondi, R. S.; Reguero, M.; de Muizon, C.; Greenwood, A.; Chait, B. T.;
Penkman, K. ; Collins, M.; MacPhee, R.D.E. (2019).
"Palaeoproteomics resolves sloth relationships" (PDF) . Nature Ecology & Evolution . 3 (7): 1121–1130.
doi :
10.1038/s41559-019-0909-z .
PMID
31171860 .
S2CID
174813630 .
^
http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=displayCollectionDetails&collection_no=37704Paleobiology database: Casimba collection.
Archived 2012-10-16 at the
Wayback Machine
^ W. D. Matthew. 1931.
Genera and new species of ground sloths from the Pleistocene of Cuba . American Museum Novitates 511:1-5