| Nothropus Temporal range: Early Pleistocene - Early Holocene |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Superorder: | Xenarthra |
| Order: | Pilosa |
| Family: | †Megatheriidae |
| Genus: | Nothropus Burmeister (1882) |
Nothropus is an extinct genus of actively mobile ground sloth of the family Megatheriidae, endemic to South America during the Pleistocene epoch. It lived from 1.8 mya—78,000 years ago existing for approximately 1.722 million years.[1]
Nothropus was named by Burmeister (1882). It was assigned to Megalonychidae by Marshall and Sempere (1991).[2]
Fossils have been uncovered from Tarija, Tarija, Bolivia, east side of the Andes Mountains.[3]