Megatherium americanum skull pieces with teeth

3D Model

Megatherium americanum – skull fragment with teeth

Description: This is a 3D laser surface scan of a fragment of the right maxilla with the 2nd and 3rd molariforms. The specimen has been horizontally sectioned, with the smaller separate (NHMUK PV M 16588b). It was collected in 1832-1833 at Punta Alta in Argentina by Darwin and is between 126,000 and 8,000 years old and 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 numbers: NHMUK PV M 16588a, NHMUK PV M 16588b

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

License: CC Attribution-NonCommercial