Description: Fantastic looking prehistoric Eremotherium sloth tooth fossil in display case. The species is Eremotherium laurillardi. This beautiful fossil was found in Florida and is from the Pleistocene Epoch. This tooth partial is about 1 1/2" x 3/4" The fossil comes in a unique display case and includes a laminated information card. All fossils sold are authentic. No replicas. Eremotherium Eremotherium (is an extinct genus of giant ground sloth in the family Megatheriidae. Eremotherium lived in southern North America, Central America, and northern South America from the Pliocene, around 5.3 million years ago, to the end of the Late Pleistocene, around 10,000 years ago. Eremotherium was widespread in tropical and subtropical lowlands and lived there in partly open and closed landscapes, while its close relative Megatherium lived in more temperate climes of South America. Both genera reached the size of today's elephants and were among the largest mammals in the Americas. Characteristic of Eremotherium was its robust physique with comparatively long limbs and front and hind feet. However, the skull is relatively gracile, the teeth are uniform and high-crowned. Like today's sloths, Eremotherium was purely herbivorous and was probably a mixed feeder that dined on leaves and grasses. Eremotherium was a generalist that could adapt its diet to the respective local and climatic conditions of many regions. Finds of Eremotherium are common and widespread, with fossils being found as far north as South Carolina in the United States and as far south as Rio Grande Do Sul in Brazil, and many complete skeletons have been unearthed.Eremotherium rivalled the closely related Megatherium in size, reaching an overall length of 20 ft and a height of 6.6 ft while on all fours, but could attain a height of about 13 ft when it reared up on its hind legs. Weight estimates vary, with a range of 6,600–14,400 lbs. In any case, it is one of the largest land-dwelling mammals of that time in the Americas, along with the proboscideans that migrated from Eurasia. SL012
Price: 34.99 USD
Location: Davenport, Iowa
End Time: 2025-01-15T02:11:24.000Z
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