Mammal
Thalassocnus
Thalassocnus was a sloth associated with an increasingly aquatic way of life.
Thalassocnus was a sloth associated with an increasingly aquatic way of life. Its skeleton provides a different kind of sloth silhouette from the familiar tree-hanging animal.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Thalassocnus at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Its feeding anatomy is interpreted as adapted to plant food.
- When it lived
- Miocene and Pliocene
- Group
- Nothrotheriidae
- Nothrotheriidae
Beyond the game
The real Thalassocnus
Thalassocnus was a sloth associated with an increasingly aquatic way of life. Its skeleton provides a different kind of sloth silhouette from the familiar tree-hanging animal.
The selected species is Thalassocnus natans, one of several named aquatic-adapted sloths. Differences among those species are relevant to interpreting the transition toward life in water.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
Explore the references behind this profile.
- An aquatic sloth from the Pliocene of Peru
- Smithsonian Ocean: actual Thalassocnus natans skeleton
- Paleobiology Database: Thalassocnus natans
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