Saturday 2 April 2016

Imagocnus

 
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Xenarthra
Family: Megalonychidae
Genus: Imagocnus
Species: I. zazae
 Temporal Range: Early Miocene 

Imagocnus is an extinct genus of ground sloth from the early Miocene of Cuba.This sloth resided in the Antilles and showed a range of body size. Its relationships to other Antilean sloths are not immediately clear, though the genera Megalocnus and Parcnus other ground sloths are its most likely relatives. Not much details is known about this genus of sloth due to lack of fossil evidence. Though it is believed that this genus of sloth did not lived for a long time period for some unknown reason.

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