Thinobadistes segnis (giant ground sloth, skeleton) Thinobadistes segnis, Florida Museum of Natural History Fossil Hall at the University of Florida
Description Florida Museum of Natural History Fossil Hall at the University of Florida
Thinobadistes segnis (or the slow beach walker) is a Miocene mylodontid ground sloth that arrived in North America before the creation of the Isthmus of Panama and is thought to have traveled through the Caribbean islands by island hopping.
Date 7 August 2009, 11:08
Source Giant Ground Sloth (Thinobadistes segnis) http://www.flickr.com/photos/31867959@N04/3824332169/
Author Dallas Krentzel http://www.flickr.com/photos/31867959@N04
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thinobadistes.jpg
Thinobadistes is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Mylodontidae, endemic to North America during the Miocene-Pleistocene epochs. It lived from 13.6—5.3 mya, existing for approximately 8.3 million years. Thinobadistes and Pliometanastes were the first of the giant sloths to appear in N. America. Both Pliometanastes and Thinobadistes were in N. America before the Panamanian Land Bridge formed around 2.5 million years ago. Order: Pilosa, Family: Mylodontidae, Subfamily: Lestodontinae, Tribe: Thinobadistini, Genus: Thinobadistes, Species: Thinobadistes segnis.
