Megatherium (English Wikipedia)

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Chichkoyan, Karina V.; Villa, Chiara; Winkler, Viola; Manuelli, Luigi; Acuña Suarez, Gabriel E. (2022-12-16). "Paleopathologies of the Clavicles of the Giant Ground Sloth Megatherium americanum (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the Pleistocene of the Pampean Region (Argentina)". Ameghiniana. 59 (6). doi:10.5710/AMGH.15.10.2022.3509. ISSN 0002-7014.
Bonini, Ricardo A.; Brandoni, Diego (December 2015). "Pyramiodontherium Rovereto (Xenarthra, Tardigrada, Megatheriinae) from the Early Pliocene of San Fernando, Catamarca Province, Argentina". Ameghiniana. 52 (6): 647–655. doi:10.5710/AMGH.16.06.2015.2902. hdl:11336/42299. ISSN 0002-7014.

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Politis, Gustavo G.; Messineo, Pablo G.; Stafford, Thomas W.; Lindsey, Emily L. (March 2019). "Campo Laborde: A Late Pleistocene giant ground sloth kill and butchering site in the Pampas". Science Advances. 5 (3): eaau4546. Bibcode:2019SciA....5.4546P. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aau4546. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 6402857. PMID 30854426.
Argot, Christine (2008), Sargis, Eric J.; Dagosto, Marian (eds.), "Changing Views in Paleontology: The Story of a Giant (Megatherium, Xenarthra)", Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology, Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 37–50, doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6997-0_3, ISBN 978-1-4020-6996-3, retrieved 2024-04-23
Agnolin, Federico L.; Chimento, Nicolás R.; Brandoni, Diego; Boh, Daniel; Campo, Denise H.; Magnussen, Mariano; De Cianni, Francisco (2018-09-01). "New Pleistocene remains of Megatherium filholi Moreno, 1888 (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the Pampean Region: Implications for the diversity of Megatheriinae of the Quaternary of South America". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie – Abhandlungen. 289 (3): 339–348. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2018/0777. hdl:11336/80117. ISSN 0077-7749. S2CID 134660849.
Chimento, Nicolás R.; Agnolin, Federico L.; Brandoni, Diego; Boh, Daniel; Magnussen, Mariano; De Cianni, Francisco; Isla, Federico (April 2021). "A new record of Megatherium (Folivora, Megatheriidae) in the late Pliocene of the Pampean region (Argentina)". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 107: 102950. Bibcode:2021JSAES.10702950C. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102950.
Pujos, François; Salas, Rodolfo (May 2004). "A new species of Megatherium (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Megatheriidae) from the Pleistocene of Sacaco and Tres Ventanas, Peru". Palaeontology. 47 (3): 579–604. Bibcode:2004Palgy..47..579P. doi:10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00376.x. ISSN 0031-0239.
Pujos, François (2006). "Megatherium celendinense sp. nov. from the Pleistocene of the Peruvian Andes and the phylogenetic relationships of Megatheriines". Palaeontology. 49 (2): 285–306. Bibcode:2006Palgy..49..285P. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00522.x. S2CID 84225654.
De Iuliis, Gerardo; Pujos, François; Tito, Giuseppe (2009-12-12). "Systematic and taxonomic revision of the Pleistocene ground sloth Megatherium (Pseudomegatherium) tarijense (Xenarthra: Megatheriidae)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (4): 1244–1251. Bibcode:2009JVPal..29.1244D. doi:10.1671/039.029.0426. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 84272333.
Delsuc, Frédéric; Kuch, Melanie; Gibb, Gillian C.; Karpinski, Emil; Hackenberger, Dirk; Szpak, Paul; Martínez, Jorge G.; Mead, Jim I.; McDonald, H. Gregory; MacPhee, Ross D.E.; Billet, Guillaume; Hautier, Lionel; Poinar, Hendrik N. (June 2019). "Ancient Mitogenomes Reveal the Evolutionary History and Biogeography of Sloths". Current Biology. 29 (12): 2031–2042.e6. Bibcode:2019CBio...29E2031D. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.05.043. PMID 31178321.
Brandoni, Diego; Carlini, Alfredo A; Anaya, Federico; Gans, Phil; Croft, Darin A (September 2018). "New Remains of Megathericulus patagonicus Ameghino, 1904 (Xenarthra, Tardigrada) from the Serravallian (Middle Miocene) of Bolivia; Chronological and Biogeographical Implications". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 25 (3): 327–337. doi:10.1007/s10914-017-9384-y. ISSN 1064-7554.
Prado, José Luis; Alberdi, María Teresa; Bellinzoni, Jonathan (June 2021). "Pleistocene Mammals from Pampean Region (Argentina). Biostratigraphic, Biogeographic, and Environmental Implications". Quaternary. 4 (2): 15. doi:10.3390/quat4020015. ISSN 2571-550X.
Naish, Darren (November 2005). "Fossils explained 51: Sloths". Geology Today. 21 (6): 232–238. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2451.2005.00538.x. ISSN 0266-6979.
Brassey, Charlotte A.; Gardiner, James D. (August 2015). "An advanced shape-fitting algorithm applied to quadrupedal mammals: improving volumetric mass estimates". Royal Society Open Science. 2 (8): 150302. Bibcode:2015RSOS....250302B. doi:10.1098/rsos.150302. ISSN 2054-5703. PMC 4555864. PMID 26361559.
Casinos, Adrià (March 1996). "Bipedalism and quadrupedalism in Megatheriurn: an attempt at biomechanical reconstruction". Lethaia. 29 (1): 87–96. Bibcode:1996Letha..29...87C. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1996.tb01842.x. ISSN 0024-1164.
Fariña RA, Czerwonogora A, di Giacomo M (March 2014). "Splendid oddness: revisiting the curious trophic relationships of South American Pleistocene mammals and their abundance". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 86 (1): 311–31. doi:10.1590/0001-3765201420120010. PMID 24676170.
McDonald, H. Gregory (June 2023). "A Tale of Two Continents (and a Few Islands): Ecology and Distribution of Late Pleistocene Sloths". Land. 12 (6): 1192. doi:10.3390/land12061192. ISSN 2073-445X.
Bargo, M. Susana; Toledo, Néstor; Vizcaíno, Sergio F. (February 2006). "Muzzle of South American Pleistocene ground sloths (Xenarthra, Tardigrada)". Journal of Morphology. 267 (2): 248–263. doi:10.1002/jmor.10399. ISSN 0362-2525. PMID 16315216.
Perez, L. M.; Toledo, N.; De Lullis, G.; Bargo, M. S.; Vizcaino, S. F. (2010). "Morphology and Function of the Hyoid Apparatus of Xenarthran Fossils (Mammalia)". Journal of Morphology. 271 (9): 1119–1133. doi:10.1002/jmor.10859. PMID 20730924. S2CID 8106788.
Boscaini, Alberto; Iurino, Dawid A.; Sardella, Raffaele; Gaudin, Timothy J.; Pujos, François (2023), Dozo, María Teresa; Paulina-Carabajal, Ariana; Macrini, Thomas E.; Walsh, Stig (eds.), "The Endocranial Cavities of Sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora): Insights from the Brain Endocast, Bony Labyrinth, and Cranial Sinuses", Paleoneurology of Amniotes, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 737–760, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-13983-3_19, ISBN 978-3-031-13982-6, retrieved 2024-05-14
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Fariña, R. A.; Blanco, R. E. (1996-12-22). "Megatherium, the stabber". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. 263 (1377): 1725–1729. doi:10.1098/rspb.1996.0252. ISSN 0962-8452. PMID 9025315.
Chichkoyan, Karina V.; Villa, Chiara; Winkler, Viola; Manuelli, Luigi; Acuña Suarez, Gabriel E. (2022-12-16). "Paleopathologies of the Clavicles of the Giant Ground Sloth Megatherium americanum (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the Pleistocene of the Pampean Region (Argentina)". Ameghiniana. 59 (6). doi:10.5710/AMGH.15.10.2022.3509. ISSN 0002-7014.
Bonini, Ricardo A.; Brandoni, Diego (December 2015). "Pyramiodontherium Rovereto (Xenarthra, Tardigrada, Megatheriinae) from the Early Pliocene of San Fernando, Catamarca Province, Argentina". Ameghiniana. 52 (6): 647–655. doi:10.5710/AMGH.16.06.2015.2902. hdl:11336/42299. ISSN 0002-7014.
Toledo, Néstor; De Iuliis, Gerardo; Vizcaíno, Sergio F.; Bargo, M. Susana (December 2018). "The Concept of a Pedolateral Pes Revisited: The Giant Sloths Megatherium and Eremotherium (Xenarthra, Folivora, Megatheriinae) as a Case Study". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 25 (4): 525–537. doi:10.1007/s10914-017-9410-0. ISSN 1064-7554.
Varela, Luciano; Tambusso, P. Sebastián; Patiño, Santiago J.; Di Giacomo, Mariana; Fariña, Richard A. (December 2018). "Potential Distribution of Fossil Xenarthrans in South America during the Late Pleistocene: co-Occurrence and Provincialism". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 25 (4): 539–550. doi:10.1007/s10914-017-9406-9. ISSN 1064-7554.
Bocherens, Hervé; Cotte, Martin; Bonini, Ricardo A.; Straccia, Pablo; Scian, Daniel; Soibelzon, Leopoldo; Prevosti, Francisco J. (August 2017). "Isotopic insight on paleodiet of extinct Pleistocene megafaunal Xenarthrans from Argentina". Gondwana Research. 48: 7–14. Bibcode:2017GondR..48....7B. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2017.04.003. hdl:11336/56592.
Milne, Nick; Toledo, Nestor; Vizcaíno, Sergio F. (September 2012). "Allometric and Group Differences in the Xenarthran Femur". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 19 (3): 199–208. doi:10.1007/s10914-011-9171-0. hdl:11336/193251. ISSN 1064-7554.
Sanz-Pérez, Dánae; Hernández Fernández, Manuel; Tomassini, Rodrigo L.; Montalvo, Claudia I.; Beilinson, Elisa; Gasparini, Germán M.; Domingo, Laura (June 2022). "The Pampean region (Argentina) underwent larger variation in aridity than in temperature during the late Pleistocene: New evidence from the isotopic analysis of mammalian taxa". Quaternary Science Reviews. 286: 107555. Bibcode:2022QSRv..28607555S. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107555.
Dantas, Mário A. T.; Campbell, Sean Cody; McDonald, H. Gregory (December 2023). "Paleoecological inferences about the Late Quaternary giant sloths". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 30 (4): 891–905. doi:10.1007/s10914-023-09681-5. ISSN 1064-7554.
Varela, Luciano; Tambusso, Sebastián; Fariña, Richard (2024-08-07). "Femora nutrient foramina and aerobic capacity in giant extinct xenarthrans". PeerJ. 12: e17815. doi:10.7717/peerj.17815. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 11316464. PMID 39131616.
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Billet, G.; Germain, D.; Ruf, I.; de Muizon, C.; Hautier, L. (December 2013). "The inner ear of Megatherium and the evolution of the vestibular system in sloths". Journal of Anatomy. 223 (6): 557–567. doi:10.1111/joa.12114. ISSN 0021-8782. PMC 3842198. PMID 24111879.
Andrea, Elissamburu (July 2016). "Prediction of offspring in extant and extinct mammals to add light on paleoecology and evolution". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 453: 73–79. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.03.033.
Amson, Eli; Nyakatura, John A. (December 2018). "The Postcranial Musculoskeletal System of Xenarthrans: Insights from over Two Centuries of Research and Future Directions". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 25 (4): 459–484. doi:10.1007/s10914-017-9408-7. ISSN 1064-7554.
Lopes, Renato Pereira; Dillenburg, Sergio Rebello; Pereira, Jamil Corrêa; Sial, Alcides Nóbrega (2021-09-26). "The paleoecology of Pleistocene giant megatheriid sloths: stable isotopes (δ13C, δ18O) of co-occurring Megatherium and Eremotherium from southern Brazil". Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia. 24 (3): 245–264. doi:10.4072/rbp.2021.3.06.
Barnosky, Anthony D.; Koch, Paul L.; Feranec, Robert S.; Wing, Scott L.; Shabel, Alan B. (2004). "Assessing the Causes of Late Pleistocene Extinctions on the Continents". Science. 306 (5693): 70–75. Bibcode:2004Sci...306...70B. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.574.332. doi:10.1126/science.1101476. PMID 15459379. S2CID 36156087.
Lima-Ribeiro, Matheus Souza; et al. (December 2012). "Potential Suitable Areas of Giant Ground Sloths Dropped Before its Extinction in South America: the Evidences from Bioclimatic Envelope Modeling". Natureza & Conservação. 10 (2): 145–151. doi:10.4322/natcon.2012.022.
Dillehay, Tom D.; Pino, Mario; Ocampo, Carlos (2021-01-02). "Comments on Archaeological Remains at the Monte Verde Site Complex, Chile". PaleoAmerica. 7 (1): 8–13. doi:10.1080/20555563.2020.1762399. ISSN 2055-5563. S2CID 224935851.
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Chichkoyan, Karina V.; Martínez-Navarro, Bienvenido; Moigne, Anne-Marie; Belinchón, Margarita; Lanata, José L. (June 2017). "The exploitation of megafauna during the earliest peopling of the Americas: An examination of nineteenth-century fossil collections". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 16 (4): 440–451. Bibcode:2017CRPal..16..440C. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2016.11.003.
Bampi, Hugo; Barberi, Maira; Lima-Ribeiro, Matheus S. (December 2022). "Megafauna kill sites in South America: A critical review". Quaternary Science Reviews. 298: 107851. Bibcode:2022QSRv..29807851B. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107851. S2CID 253876769.

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Chimento, Nicolás R.; Agnolin, Federico L.; Brandoni, Diego; Boh, Daniel; Magnussen, Mariano; De Cianni, Francisco; Isla, Federico (April 2021). "A new record of Megatherium (Folivora, Megatheriidae) in the late Pliocene of the Pampean region (Argentina)". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 107: 102950. Bibcode:2021JSAES.10702950C. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102950.
Delsuc, Frédéric; Kuch, Melanie; Gibb, Gillian C.; Karpinski, Emil; Hackenberger, Dirk; Szpak, Paul; Martínez, Jorge G.; Mead, Jim I.; McDonald, H. Gregory; MacPhee, Ross D.E.; Billet, Guillaume; Hautier, Lionel; Poinar, Hendrik N. (June 2019). "Ancient Mitogenomes Reveal the Evolutionary History and Biogeography of Sloths". Current Biology. 29 (12): 2031–2042.e6. Bibcode:2019CBio...29E2031D. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.05.043. PMID 31178321.
Bocherens, Hervé; Cotte, Martin; Bonini, Ricardo A.; Straccia, Pablo; Scian, Daniel; Soibelzon, Leopoldo; Prevosti, Francisco J. (August 2017). "Isotopic insight on paleodiet of extinct Pleistocene megafaunal Xenarthrans from Argentina". Gondwana Research. 48: 7–14. Bibcode:2017GondR..48....7B. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2017.04.003. hdl:11336/56592.
Sanz-Pérez, Dánae; Hernández Fernández, Manuel; Tomassini, Rodrigo L.; Montalvo, Claudia I.; Beilinson, Elisa; Gasparini, Germán M.; Domingo, Laura (June 2022). "The Pampean region (Argentina) underwent larger variation in aridity than in temperature during the late Pleistocene: New evidence from the isotopic analysis of mammalian taxa". Quaternary Science Reviews. 286: 107555. Bibcode:2022QSRv..28607555S. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107555.
Andrea, Elissamburu (July 2016). "Prediction of offspring in extant and extinct mammals to add light on paleoecology and evolution". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 453: 73–79. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.03.033.
Bampi, Hugo; Barberi, Maira; Lima-Ribeiro, Matheus S. (December 2022). "Megafauna kill sites in South America: A critical review". Quaternary Science Reviews. 298: 107851. Bibcode:2022QSRv..29807851B. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107851. S2CID 253876769.

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Agnolin, Federico L.; Chimento, Nicolás R.; Brandoni, Diego; Boh, Daniel; Campo, Denise H.; Magnussen, Mariano; De Cianni, Francisco (2018-09-01). "New Pleistocene remains of Megatherium filholi Moreno, 1888 (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from the Pampean Region: Implications for the diversity of Megatheriinae of the Quaternary of South America". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie – Abhandlungen. 289 (3): 339–348. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2018/0777. hdl:11336/80117. ISSN 0077-7749. S2CID 134660849.
Bonini, Ricardo A.; Brandoni, Diego (December 2015). "Pyramiodontherium Rovereto (Xenarthra, Tardigrada, Megatheriinae) from the Early Pliocene of San Fernando, Catamarca Province, Argentina". Ameghiniana. 52 (6): 647–655. doi:10.5710/AMGH.16.06.2015.2902. hdl:11336/42299. ISSN 0002-7014.
Bocherens, Hervé; Cotte, Martin; Bonini, Ricardo A.; Straccia, Pablo; Scian, Daniel; Soibelzon, Leopoldo; Prevosti, Francisco J. (August 2017). "Isotopic insight on paleodiet of extinct Pleistocene megafaunal Xenarthrans from Argentina". Gondwana Research. 48: 7–14. Bibcode:2017GondR..48....7B. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2017.04.003. hdl:11336/56592.
Milne, Nick; Toledo, Nestor; Vizcaíno, Sergio F. (September 2012). "Allometric and Group Differences in the Xenarthran Femur". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 19 (3): 199–208. doi:10.1007/s10914-011-9171-0. hdl:11336/193251. ISSN 1064-7554.

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Politis, Gustavo G.; Messineo, Pablo G.; Stafford, Thomas W.; Lindsey, Emily L. (March 2019). "Campo Laborde: A Late Pleistocene giant ground sloth kill and butchering site in the Pampas". Science Advances. 5 (3): eaau4546. Bibcode:2019SciA....5.4546P. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aau4546. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 6402857. PMID 30854426.
Chimento, Nicolás R.; Agnolin, Federico L.; Brandoni, Diego; Boh, Daniel; Magnussen, Mariano; De Cianni, Francisco; Isla, Federico (April 2021). "A new record of Megatherium (Folivora, Megatheriidae) in the late Pliocene of the Pampean region (Argentina)". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 107: 102950. Bibcode:2021JSAES.10702950C. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102950.
Pujos, François; Salas, Rodolfo (May 2004). "A new species of Megatherium (Mammalia: Xenarthra: Megatheriidae) from the Pleistocene of Sacaco and Tres Ventanas, Peru". Palaeontology. 47 (3): 579–604. Bibcode:2004Palgy..47..579P. doi:10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00376.x. ISSN 0031-0239.
Pujos, François (2006). "Megatherium celendinense sp. nov. from the Pleistocene of the Peruvian Andes and the phylogenetic relationships of Megatheriines". Palaeontology. 49 (2): 285–306. Bibcode:2006Palgy..49..285P. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00522.x. S2CID 84225654.
De Iuliis, Gerardo; Pujos, François; Tito, Giuseppe (2009-12-12). "Systematic and taxonomic revision of the Pleistocene ground sloth Megatherium (Pseudomegatherium) tarijense (Xenarthra: Megatheriidae)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (4): 1244–1251. Bibcode:2009JVPal..29.1244D. doi:10.1671/039.029.0426. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 84272333.
Delsuc, Frédéric; Kuch, Melanie; Gibb, Gillian C.; Karpinski, Emil; Hackenberger, Dirk; Szpak, Paul; Martínez, Jorge G.; Mead, Jim I.; McDonald, H. Gregory; MacPhee, Ross D.E.; Billet, Guillaume; Hautier, Lionel; Poinar, Hendrik N. (June 2019). "Ancient Mitogenomes Reveal the Evolutionary History and Biogeography of Sloths". Current Biology. 29 (12): 2031–2042.e6. Bibcode:2019CBio...29E2031D. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.05.043. PMID 31178321.
Brassey, Charlotte A.; Gardiner, James D. (August 2015). "An advanced shape-fitting algorithm applied to quadrupedal mammals: improving volumetric mass estimates". Royal Society Open Science. 2 (8): 150302. Bibcode:2015RSOS....250302B. doi:10.1098/rsos.150302. ISSN 2054-5703. PMC 4555864. PMID 26361559.
Casinos, Adrià (March 1996). "Bipedalism and quadrupedalism in Megatheriurn: an attempt at biomechanical reconstruction". Lethaia. 29 (1): 87–96. Bibcode:1996Letha..29...87C. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1996.tb01842.x. ISSN 0024-1164.
Bocherens, Hervé; Cotte, Martin; Bonini, Ricardo A.; Straccia, Pablo; Scian, Daniel; Soibelzon, Leopoldo; Prevosti, Francisco J. (August 2017). "Isotopic insight on paleodiet of extinct Pleistocene megafaunal Xenarthrans from Argentina". Gondwana Research. 48: 7–14. Bibcode:2017GondR..48....7B. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2017.04.003. hdl:11336/56592.
Sanz-Pérez, Dánae; Hernández Fernández, Manuel; Tomassini, Rodrigo L.; Montalvo, Claudia I.; Beilinson, Elisa; Gasparini, Germán M.; Domingo, Laura (June 2022). "The Pampean region (Argentina) underwent larger variation in aridity than in temperature during the late Pleistocene: New evidence from the isotopic analysis of mammalian taxa". Quaternary Science Reviews. 286: 107555. Bibcode:2022QSRv..28607555S. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107555.
Barnosky, Anthony D.; Koch, Paul L.; Feranec, Robert S.; Wing, Scott L.; Shabel, Alan B. (2004). "Assessing the Causes of Late Pleistocene Extinctions on the Continents". Science. 306 (5693): 70–75. Bibcode:2004Sci...306...70B. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.574.332. doi:10.1126/science.1101476. PMID 15459379. S2CID 36156087.
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