Hapaloides

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Hapaloides
Temporal range: Early Miocene (Colhuehuapian)
~21.0–17.5  Ma
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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
  • H. laevisculusAmeghino, 1902
  • H. ponderosusAmeghino, 1902

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]

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