Pelecyodon

{{Short description|Extinct genus of ground sloths}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|fossil_range = Early Miocene (Santacrucian)
~{{fossil range|17.5|16.3}}

| image = Pelecyodon cristatus.JPG

| image_caption = Skull of Pelecyodon cristatus

| taxon = Pelecyodon

| authority = Ameghino 1891

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• P. arcuatus {{small|Ameghino 1891}}
• P. cristatus {{small|Ameghino 1894}}
• P. maximus {{small|Ameghino 1891}}
• P. petraeus {{small|Ameghino 1891}}
• P. robustus {{small|Ameghino 1891}}

}}

Pelecyodon is an extinct genus of ground sloths from the Early Miocene (Santacrucian) of South America. Fossils have been found in the Santa Cruz Formation in Argentina.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=43605 Pelecyodon] at Fossilworks.org{{Cite journal | last1 = Toledo | first1 = N. | last2 = Bargo | first2 = M. S. | last3 = Cassini | first3 = G. H. | last4 = Vizcaíno | first4 = S. F. | title = The Forelimb of Early Miocene Sloths (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Folivora): Morphometrics and Functional Implications for Substrate Preferences | doi = 10.1007/s10914-012-9185-2 | journal = Journal of Mammalian Evolution | volume = 19 | issue = 3 | pages = 185 | year = 2012 | hdl = 11336/79192 | s2cid = 254693828 | hdl-access = free }}