Hapaloides | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Pilosa |
Family: | † Megalonychidae |
Subfamily: | † Ortotheriinae |
Genus: | † Hapaloides Ameghino, 1902 |
Type species | |
†Hapaloides ignavus Ameghino, 1902 | |
Other species | |
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Hapaloides is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Megalonychidae, endemic to Argentina during the Early Miocene. It lived from 21.0 mya to 17.5 mya, existing (as a genus) for approximately 3.5 million years. [1]
Found in the Colhuehuapian-aged Colpodon Beds of Argentina, three species are known: H. ignavus (the type species), H. laevisculus and H. ponderosus, all named by Florentino Ameghino in 1902. [2] H. ignavus is known from a partial cranium that is smaller than that of Hapalops rectangularis , which it was compared to. [2]
Ameghino in 1902 placed Hapaloides in the Megatheriidae, [2] alongside Proschismotherium , which was its sister taxon, [3] [4] while more recent taxonomic reviews place Hapaloides within Megalonychidae. [1] [5]