1. THE GROUND SLOTHS (PILOSA) OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
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Fields, Steven E., McDonald, H. Gregory, Knight, James L., and Sanders, Albert E.
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GROUND sloths , *FOSSIL animals , *PLIOCENE Epoch , *SEDIMENTARY basins , *COASTAL plains - Abstract
A summary of museum and literature records of ground sloths collected from South Carolina is presented. The ground sloth record in South Carolina consists of three genera, Eremotheirum with two species, Megalonyx with three species and Paramylodon with one species. Three of these species, Eremotherium eomigrans and Megalonyx leptostomus from the Blancan and Megalonyx wheatleyi from the Irvingtonian are new records for the state. An early Pliocene specimen of M. leptostomus is the earliest record of sloths from South Carolina. The fossil record of sloths in the state extends from the Pliocene (Blancan) through the Pleistocene (Late Rancholabrean) and is confined to sedimentary deposits on the Coastal Plain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012