Megalocnidae
Megalocnidae is an extinct family of sloths, native to the islands of the Greater Antilles from the Early Miocene to the Mid-Holocene. They are known from Cuba, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, but are absent from Jamaica. While they were formerly placed in the Megalonychidae alongside two-toed sloths and ground sloths like "Megalonyx", recent mitochondrial DNA and collagen sequencing studies place them as the earliest diverging group basal to all other sloths. They displayed significant diversity in body size and lifestyle, with "Megalocnus" being terrestrial and probably weighing several hundred kilograms, while "Neocnus" was likely arboreal and similar in weight to extant tree sloths, at less than 10 kilograms.
Q35409
family
Concept
Q2274076
sloth
Concept
Q128011
Greater Antilles
LOC
Q5326689
Early Miocene
UNK
Q25445
Holocene
TIME
Q241
Cuba
LOC
Q25277
Hispaniola
Concept
Q1183
Puerto Rico
LOC
Q766
Jamaica
LOC
Q3259942
Megalonychidae
Concept
Q511079
two-toed sloth
Concept
Q933583
ground sloths
Concept
Q134380
Megalonyx
Concept
Q27075
mitochondrial DNA
MISC
Q26868
collagen
Concept
Q379061
basal
UNK
Q141383
Megalocnus
Concept
Q6992206
Neocnus
Concept
Q96392529
Megalocnidae
UNK
+10^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
10
NUMBER
parent taxon