Mammal
Nothrotheriops
This ground sloth was about the size of a bear.
Nothrotheriops was a ground sloth about the size of a bear.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Nothrotheriops at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
- When it lived
- Quaternary
- Group
- Nothrotheriidae
- Nothrotheriids
- Fossil locations
- New Mexico
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Nothrotheriops
It was a North American ground sloth, with two recognized species. Among them is N. shastensis, known as the Shasta ground sloth.
Two species are known, including the so-called Shasta ground sloth. The size helps to imagine it, but the comparison with a bear does not imply that they shared a close family relationship.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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- Nothrotheriidae
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