In Depth
Xibalbaonyx is a genus of ground sloth that lived in Mexico during the Pleistocene, Many fossils of this ground sloth have been recovered from underwater caves.
Further Reading
- Xibalbaonyx oviceps, a new megalonychid ground sloth (Folivora, Xenarthra) from the Late Pleistocene of the Yucat�n Peninsula, Mexico, and its paleobiogeographic significance. - PalZ. 91 (2): 245–271. - Sarah R. Stinnesbeck, Eberhard Frey, Jer�nimo Av�les Olgu�n, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, Patrick Zell, Heinrich Mallison, Arturo Gonz�lez Gonz�lez, Eugenio Aceves N��ez, Adriana Vel�zquez Morlet, Alejandro Terrazas Mata, Martha Benavente Sanvicente, Fabio Hering & Carmen Rojas Sandoval - 2017. - New insights on the paleogeographic distribution of the Late Pleistocene ground sloth genus Xibalbaonyx along the Mesoamerican Corridor. - Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 85: 108–120. - Sarah R. Stinnesbeck, Eberhard Frey & Wolfgang Stinnesbeck - 2018. – Life and death of the ground sloth Xibalbaonyx oviceps from the Yucat�n Peninsula, Mexico. – Historical Biology: 1–17. – Sarah R. Stinnesbeck, Eberhard Frey, Jer�nimo Avil�s Olgu�n, Arturo Gonz�lez Gonz�lez, Adriana Vel�zquez Morlet & Wolfgang Stinnesbeck – 2020. – Xibalbaonyx exinferis n. sp. (Megalonychidae), a new Pleistocene ground sloth from the Yucat�n Peninsula, Mexico. – Historical Biology: 1–12 – Sarah R. Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, Eberhard Frey, Jer�nimo Avil�s Olgu�n & Arturo Gonz�lez Gonz�lez – 2020.
