nothrotheriids

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A form of nothrotheriid — Any extinct ground sloth of the family †Nothrotheriidae.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of nothrotheriid
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    The inclusion of Mylodontidae as the sister taxon of Megalonychidae does not support the monophyly of Megatherioidea (including the megatheriids, nothrotheriids and megalonychids) as in the widely accepted phylogenetic reconstruction proposals by Gaudin [47 ] based on craniodental morphological traits.

    2015 November 6, “Collagen Sequence Analysis of the Extinct Giant Ground Sloths Lestodon and Megatherium”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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