Restoration of Mylodon darwini with an excrement and skin fragment.

Description
Español: Reconstrucción del Mylodon darwini
Date 16 January 2017
Author Concavenator
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mylodon_darwini.png

Mylodon is an extinct genus of ground sloth that lived in the Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) area of South America until roughly 10,000 years ago. Mylodon's close relatives include the ground sloths of the genera Glossotherium and Paramylodon. The latter genus has often been confused with Glossotherium but Paramylodon is a distinct genus that was restricted to the Pleistocene of North America. Glossotherium also shares a long history of taxonomic confusion with Mylodon, and currently the only recognized species is Mylodon darwinii. At one time, the elephant-sized Megatherium was thought to be closely related, but is recognized as belonging to a separate family (Megatheriidae). Superorder: Xenarthra, Order: Pilosa, Family: Mylodontidae, Subfamily: Mylodontinae, Genus: Mylodon, Species: Mylodon darwini, Synonyms: Species: Mylodon darwinii.