Paramylodon ("besides Mylodon") 
Harlan's ground sloth - Paramylodon harlani


Allen, G. M.  1913.  A new Mylodon.  Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Collection, 40(7): 319-346.

Brown, B.  1903.  A new genus of ground sloth from the Pleistocene of Nebraska.  Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 19: 569-583. (type description, Paramylodon nebrascensis)

Dundas, R. G. and D. L. Blades.  1999.  The Fairmead landfill locality (Pleistocene, Irvingtonian), Madera County.  Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 31(7): 465.

Gazin, C. L.  1935.  Gravigrade sloth remains from the late Pliocene and Pleistocene of Idaho.  Journal of Mammalogy, 16(1): 52-60.

Gillingham, B.  1988.  ParamylodonBulletin of the Southern California Paleontological Society, 20(7-8): 214-217.

Harkness, H. W. 1882.  Footprints found at the Carson State Prison.  Proceedings of the California Academy of Science, ????.

Hilton, R. P., D. C. Dailey and H. G. McDonald.  2000.  A late Pleistocene biota from the ARCO Arena site, Sacramento, California.  PaleoBios, 20(1): 7-12.

Johnston, C. S.  1937.  The Skull of Mylodon harlani from the Lower Pleistocene of West Texas.  American Midland Naturalist, 18(3): 465-469.

Kraglievich, L.  1928a.  "Mylodon Darwin" Owen, es la especie genotipo de "Mylodon" Ow.  Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales, Physis: 9(33): 169-185. (type description, Mylodon insigne)

Leidy, J.  ????.  Notice of some mammalian remains from the salt mine of Petite Anse, Louisiana.  Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, ?: 33-40.

Lillegraven, J. A.  1966.  Bison crassicornis and the ground sloth Megalonyx jeffersoni in the Kansas Pleistocene.  Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 69(3-4): 294-300.

Lull, R. S.  1915.  A Pleistocene ground sloth, Mylodon harlani, from Rock Creek, Texas.  American Journal of Science, 39: 327-384.

-------- 1929.  A remarkable ground sloth.  Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Yale University, 3: 1-39.

 

Lundelius, E. L., Jr.  1967.  Late Pleistocene and Holocene faunal history of central Texas.  Pp. 287-319, In ( P. S. Martin and H. E. Wright, Jr., eds.) Pleistocene extinctions: a search for a cause.  Yale University Press, New Haven.

 

Lundelius, E. L., Jr.  1996.  Pleistocene vertebrates of the Brazos River terraces of north-central Texas.  Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 28(1): 50.

McDaniel, G. E., Jr., G. T. Jefferson and H. G. McDonald.  2001.  A large Paramylodon harlani osteoderm layer from the Irvingtonian of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 21(3, Suppl.): 79.

McDonald, H. G.  2006.  Sexual dimorphism in the skull of Harlan's ground sloth.  Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 510: 1-9.

McDonald, H. G., L. D. Agenbroad and C. Manganaro Haden.  2004.  Late Pleistocene mylodont ground sloth Paramylodon harlani (Mammalia: Xenarthra) from Arizona.  The Southwestern Naturalist, 49: 229-238.

Miller, Wade E.  1973.  A Pleistocene mammalian fauna from Utah, Cordilleran Section, 69th Annual Meeting.  Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, 5(1): 81.

Miller, W. E. and O. C. Castaneda.  1999.  Early South American immigrants in central Mexico, and times of their appearances.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 19(3, Suppl.): 64.

Montellano, M. B. and O. Carranza.  1981.  Edentados pliocenicos de la region central de Mexico; Pliocene edentates of central Mexico.  Anais do Congresso Latino-Americano de Paleontologia, 2(2): 683-695.

-------- and -------- 1986.  Description de un milodontido del Blancano temprano de la mesa central de Mexico.  Revista do Insituto Geologico (Sao Paulo), 6(2): 193-203.

Packard, E. L.  1952.  Fossil edentates of Oregon.  Oregon State Monographs, Studies in Geology.  16pp.

Perez, L. M., G. De Iuliis and S. F. Vizcaino.  2000.  El aparato hioideo de los perezosos terrestres (Xenarthra; Tardigrada); morfologia, evolucion y funcion.  Ameghiniana, 37(4, Suppl.): 77.

Rogers, R. A. and L. D. Martin.  1985.  Early projectile points and Pleistocene fauna from sandpits near Wichita, Kansas.  Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 88(1-2): 46-50.

Sinclair, W. J.  1910.  Dermal bones of Paramylodon from the asphaltum deposits of Rancho La Brea, near Los Angeles, California.  Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 49: 191-195.

Stock, C.  1914a.  Skull and dentition of the mylodont sloths of Rancho La Brea.  University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology, 8: 319-334.

-------- 1914b.  The systematic position of the Mylodont sloths from Rancho La Brea.  Science, 1012: 761-763.

 

-------- 1917a.  Further observation on the skull structure of the mylodont sloths from Rancho La Brea.  University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology, 10: 165-178.

 

-------- 1917b.  Structure of the pes in Mylodon harlani.  University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology, 10(16): 267-286.

-------- 1920.  A mounted skeleton of <Mylodon harlani.  University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology, 12: 425-430.

Suhm, R. W.  1978.  Preliminary investigation of the La Paloma mammoth site (late Pleistocene), Kenedy County, Texas. TAIUS, 11(1): 36.

Wilson, M. C., H. G. McDonald and C. L. Hill.  2005.  Fossil ground sloths, Megalonyx and Paramylodon (Mammalia; Xenarthra), from the Doeden local fauna, Montana.  Current Research in the Pleistocene, 22: 83-85.



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