Post by Carlos on Feb 7, 2007 20:04:23 GMT
Found here (in spanish):
www.grupopaleo.com.ar/museodemiramar/naturales/noticias_anteriores.htm
2004 News
Finding of the remains of Ground Sloth at Miramar (Argentina)
Quite recently the staff of the Museo Municipal Punta Hermengo in the city of Miramar, made public the finding of the fossil remains of giant ground sloth called Scelidotherium leptocephalum, a common Pleistocene species in the Pampas region. Head of the museum, Daniel Both, signalled that “it is a very relevant specimen for our museum”. The discovery is made up of a very complete skull, lacking the front bone, together with the lower jaw bone. But the most peculiar of this discovery is not the specimen itself, but its relative younger age as it is not older than 7000 years BP and most likely it shared the area with the first humans that lived here…
The Holocene sediments that yielded these specimens were studied by palaeontologists Eduardo Tonni and Fidalgo in 1983 that dated them between 3000 and 6000 years BP. Scelidotherium was an enormous sloth more than three meters long and weighted about one ton. (Published in PaleoArgentina)
Image: www.grupopaleo.com.ar/museodemiramar/naturales/Scelidotherium.jpg
www.grupopaleo.com.ar/museodemiramar/naturales/noticias_anteriores.htm
2004 News
Finding of the remains of Ground Sloth at Miramar (Argentina)
Quite recently the staff of the Museo Municipal Punta Hermengo in the city of Miramar, made public the finding of the fossil remains of giant ground sloth called Scelidotherium leptocephalum, a common Pleistocene species in the Pampas region. Head of the museum, Daniel Both, signalled that “it is a very relevant specimen for our museum”. The discovery is made up of a very complete skull, lacking the front bone, together with the lower jaw bone. But the most peculiar of this discovery is not the specimen itself, but its relative younger age as it is not older than 7000 years BP and most likely it shared the area with the first humans that lived here…
The Holocene sediments that yielded these specimens were studied by palaeontologists Eduardo Tonni and Fidalgo in 1983 that dated them between 3000 and 6000 years BP. Scelidotherium was an enormous sloth more than three meters long and weighted about one ton. (Published in PaleoArgentina)
Image: www.grupopaleo.com.ar/museodemiramar/naturales/Scelidotherium.jpg
