| 词条 | Megalocnus |
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| name = Megalocnus | image = Megalocnus_rodens.JPG | image_caption = Mounted skeleton of M. rodens, AMNH, New York City | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|0.126|0.005|126–5 ka}}Late Pleistocene to Holocene | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Mammalia | superordo = Xenarthra | ordo = Pilosa | familia = Megalonychidae | genus = †Megalocnus | genus_authority = Leidy, 1868 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision =
}} The ground sloths of the extinct genus Megalocnus ("great sloth") were among the largest of the Caribbean ground sloths, with individuals estimated to have weighed up to {{convert|90|kg|abbr=on}} when alive. Two species are known, M. rodens of Cuba, and M. zile of Hispaniola. Subfossils of M. rodens indicate survival well into the Holocene, prompting speculation that they may have survived in the montane forests of the Cuban highlands until the 15th or 16th century. However, the most recent AMS radiocarbon date reported is 4190 BP, calibrated to c. 4700 BP.[1] This is similar to the most recent date reported for a Hispaniolan sloth, 4391 BP, calibrated to c. 5000 BP, for the small and probably semiarboreal Neocnus comes,[2] and some 1200 years after the earliest known date for human occupation of Cuba, 5140 BP, calibrated to c. 5900 BP.[1] Their relatives include other Caribbean ground sloths, such as Acratocnus, Mesocnus, Miocnus, Neocnus, Parocnus, and Paulocnus. See also{{Portal|Paleontology}}
References1. ^1 {{cite journal | last = MacPhee | first = R. D. E. |author2=Iturralde-Vinent, M. A. |author3=Vázquez, O. J. | title = Prehistoric Sloth Extinctions in Cuba: Implications of a New "Last" Appearance Date | journal = Caribbean Journal of Science | volume = 43 | issue = 1 | pages = 94–98 | publisher = College of Arts and Sciences, University of Puerto Rico | date = June 2007 | url = http://caribjsci.org/June07/43_94-98.pdf | accessdate = 2009-05-11| doi = 10.18475/cjos.v43i1.a9 }} {{Wikispecies}}{{Taxonbar|from=Q141383}}{{paleo-mammal-stub}}2. ^{{cite journal | last = Steadman | first = D. W. |author2=Martin, P. S. |author3=MacPhee, R. D. E. |author4=Jull, A. J. T. |author5=McDonald, H. G. |author6=Woods, C. A. |author7=Iturralde-Vinent, M. |author8=Hodgins, G. W. L. | author1link = David Steadman | author2link = Paul S. Martin | title = Asynchronous extinction of late Quaternary sloths on continents and islands | journal = Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA | volume = 102 | issue = 33 | pages = 11763–11768 | publisher = National Academy of Sciences | date = 2005-08-16 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.0502777102 | pmid = 16085711 | pmc = 1187974| bibcode = 2005PNAS..10211763S }} 10 : Prehistoric sloths|Prehistoric mammal genera|Pleistocene xenarthrans|Pleistocene first appearances|Holocene extinctions|Pleistocene mammals of North America|Extinct animals of Cuba|Fossils of Cuba|Fossil taxa described in 1868|Taxa named by Joseph Leidy |
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