Eremotherium mirabile, (Megatherium) giant ground sloth tooth Ouranosaurus in a separate volume

in a separate volume

being some 2/3 the size of the others

Also included is a chart showing the information above

The deep lower jaw likely had powerful muscles and the marginal teeth along the front and sides of its jaws had serrated tips

The original for this specimen was valued at $1

Eremotherium mirabile, (Megatherium) giant ground sloth tooth Ouranosaurus in a separate volumeMegatherium (pronounced MEG ah THEER ee um)(now known as Eremotherium) was a huge, bulky, slow moving mammal that lived during the Pleistocene epoch in South America. It went extinct about 11,000 years ago. This ice age mammal was the largest of the ground sloths; Megatherium's name means "great beast." Megatherium was named by paleontologist Richard Owen in 1856; the first Megatherium fossil was found in Brazil in 1789. Anatomy: Megatherium had peg