First Record of Giant Anteater (Xenarthra, Myrmecophagidae) in North America
@article{Shaw1987FirstRO, title={First Record of Giant Anteater (Xenarthra, Myrmecophagidae) in North America}, author={C. Shaw and H. Gregory McDonald}, journal={Science}, year={1987}, volume={236}, pages={186 - 188} }
A right metacarpal III represents the first North American record of the giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla). Recovered in northwestern Sonora, Mexico, with a rich vertebrate fauna of early Pleistocene (Irvingtonian) age, it belongs to a cohort of large mammals that dispersed from South America to North America along a savanna corridor. Presumably habitat and climatic changes have subsequently driven this mammalian family more than 3000 kilometers back into Central America from its former… CONTINUE READING
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