North American Ground Sloths: Plate X

lithograph showing fossils

This is Plate X from "A Memoir of the Extinct Sloth Tribe of North America" (1855). All of these bones are from Megalonyx jeffersonii. The radius and ulna (forearm bones) are shown to the left. The other bones are metacarpals and phalanges from the manus (hand).

The following are other plates from "A Memoir of the Extinct Sloth Tribe of North America" (1855):

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