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Scelidotherium is a genus of large South American Pleistocene ground sloths, characterized, by the elongation and slenderness of the skull, which thus makes a decided approximation to the anteater type, although retaining the full series of cheek-teeth. The feet resemble those of Megatherium.
In his journal of The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin reports the finding of a nearly perfect fossil Scelidotherium in Punta Alta while travelling overland from Bahia Blanca to Buenos Aires in 1832. He allied it to the Megatherium.
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