Prepotherium
Sign in to savePrepotherium is an extinct genus of megatheriid ground sloths that lived during the Miocene period. Fossils of Prepotherium have been found in the Collón Curá and Santa Cruz Formations of Argentina.
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- Parent taxon
- Megatheriidae
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- genus
- taxon name
- Prepotherium
- start time
- 17500000-0
- end time
- 11600000-0
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- Prepotherium
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Prepotherium is an extinct genus of megatheriid ground sloths that lived during the Miocene period. Fossils of Prepotherium have been found in the Collón Curá and Santa Cruz Formations of Argentina.
Prepotherium differed from Megatherium by being smaller and having a less exaggeratedly convex inferior border of the lower jaw.
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