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Taxon: Family
Megatheriidae
(Gray, 1821) Owen, 1842
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Natura - nature
..Mundus - physical world
....Naturalia - natural bodies
......Biota
........Domain Eukaryota - eukaryotes
..........Unikonta
............Opisthokonta
..............Holozoa
................Kingdom Animalia - animals
..................Epitheliozoa
....................Eumetazoa - eumetazoans
......................Bilateria - bilaterians
........................Eubilateria
..........................Deuterostomia - deuterostomes
............................Phylum Chordata - chordates
..............................Subphylum Vertebrata - vertebrates
................................Infraphylum Gnathostomata - jawed vertebrates
..................................Superclass Tetrapoda - tetrapods
....................................Reptiliomorpha
......................................Batrachosauria
........................................Amniota
..........................................Synapsida
............................................Therapsida
..............................................Theriodontia
................................................Eutheriodontia
..................................................Cynodontia
....................................................Eucynodontia
......................................................Mammaliamorpha
........................................................Mammaliaformes
..........................................................Holotheria
............................................................Class Mammalia - mammals
..............................................................Theriimorpha
................................................................Theriiformes
..................................................................Trechnotheria
....................................................................Cladotheria
......................................................................Zatheria
........................................................................Subclass Boreosphenida
..........................................................................Theria
............................................................................Infraclass Eutheria
..............................................................................Cohort Placentalia - placentals
................................................................................Magnorder Xenarthra - xenarthrans
..................................................................................Order Pilosa - sloths
....................................................................................Suborder Folivora
......................................................................................Infraorder Megatheria
........................................................................................Superfamily Megatherioidea
..........................................................................................Family Megalonychidae - West Indian sloths and two-toed tree sloths
..........................................................................................Family ‡Megatheriidae
............................................................................................Subfamily ‡Megatheriinae
............................................................................................Subfamily †Schismotheriinae
Authorship
Original name
Gray, 1821:305
Subsequent rank
Owen, 1842:168
Types
Type of
Megatheria
(Parvorder)
McKenna & Bell, 1997
[
K.D. Rose et al., 2005
: table 8.1
]
Nominotypical taxon of
Megatherioidea
(Superfamily)
(Gray, 1821) Cabrera, 1929
Nominotypical taxon
Megatheriinae
(Subfamily)
(Gray, 1821) Gill, 1872
Taxonomic positions
Subsequent position
Megatherioidea
(Superfamily)
(Gray, 1821) Cabrera, 1929
Number of Subtaxa
2013
Available in Systema Naturae 2000
‡2g; †28g;2s;1ss
1997
M.C. McKenna & S.K. Bell
[; ‡2g; †28g]
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Last updated: 7 Apr 2012