Diabolotherium
| Diabolotherium | |
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| Ventral view of the skull | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Pilosa |
| Family: | †Megatheriidae |
| Genus: | †Diabolotherium Pujos et al., 2007 |
| Species: | †D. nordenskioldi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Diabolotherium nordenskioldi (Kraglievich, 1926)
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Diabolotherium is an extinct genus of megatheriine ground sloth, known from the Late Pleistocene of Peru. Unlike most other extinct mainland sloths, it seems to have been a climber, similar to extinct sloths from the Caribbean. The genus contains a single species, Diabolotherium nordenskioldi, originally described as a species of Nothropus in 1926. Fossils of this genus were found at the coastal Piedra Escrita site and the Andean Casa del Diablo cave.