Megatherium americanum - skull fragment
Specimen number: NHMUK PV M 16589
Specimen Link: http://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/838336aa-9e36-428a-b354-19db88126ec8
Taxon: Megatherium americanum
Description: Fragment of the cranium (posterior part of right zygomatic arch)
Site: Punta Alta, Argentina
Age: Late Pleistocene to early Holocene (between 126,000 and 8,000 years old)
Collection: Collected between September and October 1832 or between August and September 1833 by Charles Darwin (specific date was not recorded)
Comments: This is a fragment of the right cheek bone. It was first attributed to Charles Darwin in the Royal College of Surgeons 1845 catalogue.
Resources
Cite this as
Philippa Brewer; Kaitlyn Burton; Adrian Lister; Amy Scott-Murray et al. (2018). Megatherium americanum - skull fragment (from Darwin's Fossil Mammals) [Data set resource]. Natural History Museum.
https://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/darwins-fossil-mammals/resource/036a2b5d-b45a-453b-a2ab-164a316f1690
Retrieved: 23:33 24 Apr 2024 (UTC)
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| License | Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any) |
| Created | 5 years ago |
| id | 036a2b5d-b45a-453b-a2ab-164a316f1690 |
| linked specimen | 838336aa-9e36-428a-b354-19db88126ec8 |
| metadata modified | 2 years ago |
| package id | ffd2d455-c0e5-4eb6-85c3-da8ed1e088d3 |
| position | 18 |
| resource group | $genus |
| state | active |