Megalonyx wheatleyi (Wheatley's ground sloth, skeleton) Description
Exhibit in the fossil collection of the American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction.
Date 2 April 2012, 14:32:05
Author Daderot
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Megalonyx_wheatleyi_-_AMNH_-_DSC06327.JPG
Megalonyx is an extinct genus of ground sloths of the family Megalonychidae endemic to North America from the Hemphillian of the Late Miocene through to the Rancholabrean of the Pleistocene. Superorder: Xenarthra, Order: Pilosa, Family: Megalonychidae, Subfamily: Megalonychinae, Genus: Megalonyx, Species; Megalonyx wheatleyi Cope, 1871
