Megatherium americanum – skull fragment

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Megatherium americanum – skull fragment

Description: This is a 3D laser surface scan of a fragment of the cranium (posterior of right zygomatic arch and temporal). It was collected in 1832-1833 at Punta Alta in Argentina by Charles Darwin and is between 126,000 and 8,000 years old. It is part of the Earth Sciences collection at the Natural History Museum, London. This has been scanned as part of the Museum’s Darwin Fossil Mammals digitisation project. Find out more at www.nhm.ac.uk/darwinsfossils

What is Megatherium?

Specimen number: NHMUK PV M 16589

Visit the dataset (https://doi.org/10.5519/0086786)) and specimen record on the Museum’s Data Portal for images and to request high resolution scan data.

License: CC Attribution-NonCommercial