Restoration of N. shastensis

Description Nothrotheriops shastensis.
Date 2009
Author FunkMonk (Michael B. H.)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nothrotheriops.jpg

Nothrotheriops is a genus of Pleistocene ground sloth found in North America, from what is now central Mexico to the southern United States. This genus of bear-sized xenarthran was related to the much larger, and far more famous Megatherium, although it has recently been placed in a different family, Nothrotheriidae. The most well known species, N. shastensis, is also called the Shasta ground sloth. Order: Xenarthra, Family: Nothrotheriidae, Genus: Nothrotheriops, Type species: Nothrotheriops shastensis Sinclair, 1905
Species:
N. shastensis (Sinclair 1905)
N. texanus (Hay 1916)