INVESTIGADORES
PUJOS FranÇois Roger Francis
artículos
Título:
Eremotherium laurillardi (Lund, 1842) (Xenarthra, Megatheriinae) is the only valid extinct megatheriine sloth species in the Pleistocene of intertropical Brazil: a response to Faure et al. 2014
Autor/es:
CARTELLE, C.; DE IULIIS, G.; PUJOS, F.
Revista:
COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL
Editorial:
ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
Referencias:
Lugar: Paris; Año: 2014 vol. 14 p. 15 - 23
ISSN:
1631-0683
Resumen:
Recent reports (Guérin and Faure, 2000, 2008; Faure et al., 2014) describe the existence, inintertropical Brazil, of a small ("dwarf") megatheriine sloth, Eremotherium laurillardi (Lund, 1842), and a giant-sized megatheriine, Eremotherium rusconii (Schaub, 1935). This view is in marked contrast to that advanced by Cartelle and De Iuliis (1995, 2006), who demonstrated the presence of a single late Pleistocene giant Eremotherium species, for which the valid name is Eremotherium laurillardi (Lund, 1842), in intertropical Brazil and elsewhere in the Americas. These authors dubbed this species the Panamerican giant ground sloth. The present contribution reviews the material discussed by Faure et al. (2014) and demonstrates that it belongs to a juvenile (as did the material from Guérin and Faure, 2000) of the Panamerican giant ground sloth (i.e., E. laurillardi sensu Cartelle and De Iuliis, 1995; 2006) and that there is no evidence of a dwarf megatheriine in the late Pleistocene of intertropical Brazil.