Eremotherium laurillardi Giant Ground Sloth Skeleton Replica

Description

Eremotherium laurillardi giant ground sloth skeleton replica measures 13.0 feet tall. Eremotherium Laurillardi skeleton is museum-quality polyurethane resin cast from the Royal Ontario Museum specimen. 1:1 scale. Made in USA.

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Eremotherium is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Megatheriidae, endemic to North America and South America during the Pleistocene epoch.

It lived from 4.9 million years ago to 11,000 years ago existing for approximately 4.889 million years ago. Fossils have been uncovered from Volusia County, Florida, Chatham County, Georgia; Berkeley County, South Carolina; Espirito Santo; and Pedra Preta, Brazil; Tarapoto, Peru (giant form); Rio Canas, Ecuador.

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 lb. It is one of the largest land-dwelling mammals of that time in the Americas that migrated from Eurasia. As a ground-dwelling sloth, it had relatively shorter and stronger limbs compared to modern arboreal sloths and also had a longer tail.

The hands were turned inwards, in a position somewhat resembling the forefeet of the similarly clawed Chalicotheriidae, a now extinct group of odd-toed ungulates.

However, Eremotherium laurillardi was able to stand up on its hind legs and pull branches and twigs with its hands, for example to reach the foliage of tall trees for feeding, as well as defensive strikes with its long claws were possible.

Scientific Classification:

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Chordata
• Class: Mammalia
• Superorder: Xenarthra
  Order: Pilosa
• Family: †Megatheriidae
• Subfamily: †Megatherinae
• Subtribe: †Megatheriina
• Genus: †Eremotherium
• Conservation Status: Extinct

Examine the graviportal limb structure and specialized pelvic girdle of the Eremotherium laurillardi giant ground sloth skeleton alongside the unique, six-ossicone skull architecture of the Uintatherium mounted skeleton for a comparative study of Cenozoic mammalian gigantism.