Megatherium (Italian Wikipedia)

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Adrià Casinos, Bipedalism and quadrupedalism in Megatherium: an attempt at biomechanical reconstruction, in Lethaia, vol. 29, 1996, pp. 87-96.
Richard D. Keynes, The Jayne Lecture. From Bryozoans to Tsunami: Charles Darwin’s Findings on the Beagle, in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 147, n. 2, 2003, pp. 103-127.
Jeremy L. Green e Daniela C. Kalthoff, Xenarthran Dental Microstructure and Dental Microwear Analyses, with New Data for Megatherium americanum (Megatheriidae), in Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 96, n. 4, 2015, pp. 645-657.
Paulina E. Nabel, Alberto Cione e Eduardo P. Tonni, Environmental changes in the Pampean area of Argentina at the Matuyama–Brunhes (C1r–C1n) Chrons boundary, in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 162, 2000, pp. 403-412.
Gustavo Martínez, „Fish-Tail“ projectile points and megamammals: new evidence from Paso Otero 5 (Argentina), in Antiquity, vol. 75, 2001, pp. 523-528.
Richard Owen, Note on the Glyptodon, in Woodbine Parish (a cura di), Buenos Ayres, and the provinces of the Rio de La Plata: their present state, trade and dept; with some account from original documents of the progress of geographical discovery in those parts of South America during the last sixty years, Londra, 1839, pp. 178b-178e.

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(FR) Georges Cuvier, Cap. 8, in Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes, Parigi, 1812.
William Clift, Some account of the remains of the Megatherium sent to England from Buenos Ayres by Woodbine Parish, in Transactions of the Geological Society, vol. 2, n. 3, 1835, pp. 437-450.
Richard Owen, Fossil Mammalia, in vol. 1, Londra, Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, during the years 1832 to 1836, 1840, pp. 100-106.
Richard Owen, Memoir on the Megatherium, or giant ground-sloth of America (Megatherium americanum, Cuvier), Londra, 1861, pp. 1-84.
(FR) Georges Cuvier, Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles, où l'on rétablit les caractères de plusieurs animaux dont les révolutions du globe ont détruit les espèces, Vol V, Parigi, 1823, pp. 174-192.
(DE) Joseph Eduard d’Alton, Über die von dem verstorbenen Herrn Sellow aus der Banda oriental mitgebrachten fossilen Panzerfragmente und die dazugehörigen Knochen-Überreste, in Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1833, pp. 369-424.
(DA) Peter Wilhelm Lund, Blik paa Brasiliens Dyreverden för Sidste Jordomvaeltning. Anden Afhandling: Patteedyrene, in Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskbas Naturvidenskabelige og Matematiske Afhandlinger, vol. 8, 1839, p. 83.
Richard Owen, Description of a tooth and part of the skeleton of the Glyptodon clavipes, a large quadrupede of the Edentate order, to which belongs the tesselated bony armour described and figured by Mr. Clift in the former Volume of the Transactions of the Geological Society; with a consideration of the question whether the Megatherium possessed an analogous dermal armor, in Transactions of the Geological Society, vol. 2, n. 6, 1841, pp. 81-106.

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(FR) Georges Cuvier, Notice sur le squelette d’une très grande espèce quadrupède inconnue jusqu’à présent, trouvé au Paraguay, et déposé au Cabinet d’Histoire naturelle de Madrid, in Magasin encyclopédique, vol. 1, 1796, pp. 303-310.

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(ES) Don Joseph Garriga, Descripción del esqueleto de un quadrúpedo muy corpulento y raro, que se conserva en el Real Gabinete de Historia Natural de Madrid, Madrid, 1796.

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Néstor Toledo, Gerardo De Iuliis, Sergio F. Vizcaíno e M. Susana Bargo, The Concept of a Pedolateral Pes Revisited: The Giant Sloths Megatherium and Eremotherium (Xenarthra, Folivora, Megatheriinae) as a Case Study, in Journal of Mammalian Evolution, vol. 25, n. 4, 2018, pp. 525-537, DOI:10.1007/s10914-017-9410-0.
Santiago Pantiño e Richard A. Fariña, Ungual phalanges analysis in Pleistocene ground sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora), in Historical Biology, vol. 29, n. 8, 2017, pp. 1065-1075, DOI:10.1080/08912963.2017.1286653.
Santiago Pantiño, Jorge Peréz Zerpa e Richard A. Fariña, Finite element and morphological analysis in extant mammal's claws and Quaternary sloth' ungual phalanges, in Historical Biology, 2019, DOI:10.1080/08912963.2019.1664504.
Michael D. Deak, Warren P. Porter, Paul D. Mathewson, David M. Lovelace, Randon J. Flores, Aradhna K. Tripati, Robert A. Eagle, Darin M. Schwartz e Michael T. Butcher, Metabolic skinflint or spendthrift? Insights into ground sloth integument and thermophysiology revealed by biophysical modeling and clumped isotope paleothermometry, in Journal of Mammalian Evolution, vol. 32, 2025, p. 1, DOI:10.1007/s10914-024-09743-2.
H. Gregory McDonald, An Overview of the Presence of Osteoderms in Sloths: Implications for Osteoderms as a Plesiomorphic Character of the Xenarthra, in Journal of Mammalian Evolution, vol. 25, n. 4, 2018, pp. 485-493, DOI:10.1007/s10914-017-9415-8.
Frédéric Delsuc, Melanie Kuch, Gillian C. Gibb, Emil Karpinski, Dirk Hackenberger, Paul Szpak, Jorge G. Martínez, Jim I. Mead, H. Gregory McDonald, Ross D.E. MacPhee, Guillaume Billet, Lionel Hautier e Hendrik N. Poinar, Ancient mitogenomes reveal the evolutionary history and biogeography of sloths, in Current Biology, vol. 29, n. 12, 2019, pp. 2031-2042, DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2019.05.043.
Samantha Presslee, Graham J. Slater, François Pujos, Analía M. Forasiepi, Roman Fischer, Kelly Molloy, Meaghan Mackie, Jesper V. Olsen, Alejandro Kramarz, Matías Taglioretti, Fernando Scaglia, Maximiliano Lezcano, José Luis Lanata, John Southon, Robert Feranec, Jonathan Bloch, Adam Hajduk, Fabiana M. Martin, Rodolfo Salas Gismondi, Marcelo Reguero, Christian de Muizon, Alex Greenwood, Brian T. Chait, Kirsty Penkman, Matthew Collins e Ross D. E. MacPhee, Palaeoproteomics resolves sloth relationships, in Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 3, 2019, pp. 1121-1130, DOI:10.1038/s41559-019-0909-z.
Nicolás R. Chimento, Federico L. Agnolin, Diego Brandoni, Daniel Boh, Mariano Magnussen, Francisco De Cianni e Federico Isla, A new record of Megatherium (Folivora, Megatheriidae) in the late Pliocene of the Pampean region (Argentina), in Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 2020, p. 102950, DOI:10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102950.
Gustavo G. Politis, Pablo G. Messineo, Thomas W. Stafford Jr. e Emily L. Lindsey, Campo Laborde: A Late Pleistocene giant ground sloth kill and butchering site in the Pampas, in Science Advances, vol. 5, 2019, p. eaau4546, DOI:10.1126/sciadv.aau4546.

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Néstor Toledo, Gerardo De Iuliis, Sergio F. Vizcaíno e M. Susana Bargo, The Concept of a Pedolateral Pes Revisited: The Giant Sloths Megatherium and Eremotherium (Xenarthra, Folivora, Megatheriinae) as a Case Study, in Journal of Mammalian Evolution, vol. 25, n. 4, 2018, pp. 525-537, DOI:10.1007/s10914-017-9410-0.
Santiago Pantiño e Richard A. Fariña, Ungual phalanges analysis in Pleistocene ground sloths (Xenarthra, Folivora), in Historical Biology, vol. 29, n. 8, 2017, pp. 1065-1075, DOI:10.1080/08912963.2017.1286653.
Santiago Pantiño, Jorge Peréz Zerpa e Richard A. Fariña, Finite element and morphological analysis in extant mammal's claws and Quaternary sloth' ungual phalanges, in Historical Biology, 2019, DOI:10.1080/08912963.2019.1664504.
Michael D. Deak, Warren P. Porter, Paul D. Mathewson, David M. Lovelace, Randon J. Flores, Aradhna K. Tripati, Robert A. Eagle, Darin M. Schwartz e Michael T. Butcher, Metabolic skinflint or spendthrift? Insights into ground sloth integument and thermophysiology revealed by biophysical modeling and clumped isotope paleothermometry, in Journal of Mammalian Evolution, vol. 32, 2025, p. 1, DOI:10.1007/s10914-024-09743-2.
H. Gregory McDonald, An Overview of the Presence of Osteoderms in Sloths: Implications for Osteoderms as a Plesiomorphic Character of the Xenarthra, in Journal of Mammalian Evolution, vol. 25, n. 4, 2018, pp. 485-493, DOI:10.1007/s10914-017-9415-8.
Frédéric Delsuc, Melanie Kuch, Gillian C. Gibb, Emil Karpinski, Dirk Hackenberger, Paul Szpak, Jorge G. Martínez, Jim I. Mead, H. Gregory McDonald, Ross D.E. MacPhee, Guillaume Billet, Lionel Hautier e Hendrik N. Poinar, Ancient mitogenomes reveal the evolutionary history and biogeography of sloths, in Current Biology, vol. 29, n. 12, 2019, pp. 2031-2042, DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2019.05.043.
Samantha Presslee, Graham J. Slater, François Pujos, Analía M. Forasiepi, Roman Fischer, Kelly Molloy, Meaghan Mackie, Jesper V. Olsen, Alejandro Kramarz, Matías Taglioretti, Fernando Scaglia, Maximiliano Lezcano, José Luis Lanata, John Southon, Robert Feranec, Jonathan Bloch, Adam Hajduk, Fabiana M. Martin, Rodolfo Salas Gismondi, Marcelo Reguero, Christian de Muizon, Alex Greenwood, Brian T. Chait, Kirsty Penkman, Matthew Collins e Ross D. E. MacPhee, Palaeoproteomics resolves sloth relationships, in Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 3, 2019, pp. 1121-1130, DOI:10.1038/s41559-019-0909-z.
Nicolás R. Chimento, Federico L. Agnolin, Diego Brandoni, Daniel Boh, Mariano Magnussen, Francisco De Cianni e Federico Isla, A new record of Megatherium (Folivora, Megatheriidae) in the late Pliocene of the Pampean region (Argentina), in Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 2020, p. 102950, DOI:10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102950.
Gustavo G. Politis, Pablo G. Messineo, Thomas W. Stafford Jr. e Emily L. Lindsey, Campo Laborde: A Late Pleistocene giant ground sloth kill and butchering site in the Pampas, in Science Advances, vol. 5, 2019, p. eaau4546, DOI:10.1126/sciadv.aau4546.

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Richard Owen, On the Megatherium (Megatherium americanum Blumebach), in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Part I. Preliminary Observations on the Exogenous Processes of Vertebrae. 141, 1851, pp. 719-764; Part II. Vertebrae of the Trunk. 145, 1855, pp. 359-388; Part III. The skull. 146, 1856, pp. 571-589; Part IV. The bones of the anterior extremities. 148, 1858, pp. 261-278; Part V. The bones of the posterior extremities. 149, 1859, pp. 809-829.
Thomas Henry Huxley, On the Osteology of the Genus Glyptodon, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 155, 1865, pp. 31-70.

Megatherium (Italian Wikipedia)

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