Orophodon
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Orophodon is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Mylodontidae, endemic to Argentina, South America.
Taxonomy
Orophodon was named by Florentino Ameghino in 1894. It was assigned to Mylodontidae by Carroll in 1988.
Palaeoecology
O. hapaloides was a generalist herbivore able to feed on a wide variety of different plants.
Orophodon lived with various Notoungulata, Sparassodonta, rodents, birds, etc. It is thought that O. hapaloides was preyed on by some species of Sebecidae and Phorusrhacidae like Dynamopterus.
Further reading
- F. Ameghino. 1894. Sur les oiseaux fossiles de Patagonie; et la faune mammalogique des couches à Pyrotherium. Boletin del Instituto Geographico Argentino 15:501-660