Choloepus didactylus
Linnaeus's two-toed sloth, also known as the southern two-toed sloth, unau, or Linne's two-toed sloth is a species of sloth from South America, found in Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil north of the Amazon River. There is now evidence suggesting the species' range expands into Bolivia. It's the largest extant sloth species.
Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Linnaeus's two toed slothPBDB
- Sits inside
- CholoepusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Megalonychidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Megalonychidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Mass
- 364 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Choloepus didactylus on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
1 occurrences- Holocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Choloepus didactylus and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Choloepus didactylus and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
44 taxa- Alouatta seniculus1 site
- Ateles paniscus1 site
- Bradypus tridactylus1 site
- Caluromys lanatus1 site
- Caluromys philander1 site
- Cervus gouazoubira1 site
- Chiropotes satanas1 site
- Coendou prehensilis1 site
- Cuniculus paca1 site
- Cyclopes1 site
- Dasyprocta leporina1 site
- Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus1 site
- Dasypus (Hyperoambon) kappleri1 site
- Didelphis marsupialis1 site
- Eira barbara1 site
- Isothrix1 site
- Lontra longicaudis1 site
- Marmosa1 site
- Marmosa murina1 site
- Mazama americana1 site
- Mesomys1 site
- Metachirus nudicaudatus1 site
- Monodelphis brevicaudata1 site
- Myoprocta acouchy1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Choloepus didactylus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Choloepus didactylus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Photogrammetry
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Credit
- Kwata Association
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Choloepus didactylus · KWATA:JAGUARS:M1885
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCholoepus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)