Eremotherium laurillardi, Sloth jaw
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Description:
A partial sloth (Eremotherium laurillardi) mandible containing the 2nd and 3rd premolar. The fossil was collected in 1880. A cast has been made of the specimen and is stored with it.
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- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Neogene
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Pilosa
- Family: Megatheriidae
- Genus: Eremotherium
- Species: Eremotherium laurillardi
- Formation: Wando
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Ground Sloths
- Object Id: PV7702
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