Prepotherium
Prepotherium is an extinct genus of megatheriid ground sloths that lived during the Miocene period. Fossils of Prepotherium have been found in the Collón Curá and Santa Cruz Formations of Argentina.
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Pilosa |
| Family: | †Megatheriidae |
| Subfamily: | †Planopsinae |
| Genus: | †Prepotherium Ameghino, 1891 |
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Prepotherium differed from Megatherium by being smaller and having a less exaggeratedly convex inferior border of the lower jaw.
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