Proplatyarthrus

{{Short description|Proplatyarthrus is an extinct ground sloth from Megalonychidae, endemic to Chubut Argentin}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = Early Oligocene (Tinguirirican-Deseadan)
~{{fossil range|33.9|28.4}}

| image = Proplatyarthrus talus bone.jpg

| image_caption = Talus bone of Proplatyarthrus

| taxon = Proplatyarthrus

| authority = Ameghino 1905

| type_species = †P. longipes

| type_species_authority = Ameghino, 1905

}}

Proplatyarthrus is an extinct genus of ground sloths of the family Megalonychidae, endemic to Chubut Province, Argentina.{{Cite web |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=43607 |title=PaleoBiology Database: Proplatyarthrus, basic info |access-date=2009-08-15 |archive-date=2012-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013095001/http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=43607&is_real_user=1 |url-status=live }}

Taxonomy

Proplatyarthrus was named and a talus bone described by Florentino Ameghino in 1905.Ameghino, 1905, p.59 It was assigned to Megalonychidae by Carroll in 1988.R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. W. H. Freeman and Company, New York 1-698

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{{citation |last=Ameghino |first=Florentino |year=1905 |title=La faceta articular inferior única del astrágalo de algunos mamíferos no es un carácter primitivo |journal=Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires |volume=12 |pages=1–64 |url=https://archive.org/details/analesdelmuseona35muse |accessdate=2016-07-27}}

Proplatyarthrus

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