Lexicographical Neighbors of Mylodons
Literary usage of Mylodons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thayer Expedition by Charles Frederick Hartt (1870)
"... mylodons, Mastodons, immense Armadillos and Cats, Horses, &c., in Brazil.
— Remains of a Race of Man of high Antiquity. — Reinhardt's Generalizations. ..."
2. Thayer Expedition by Charles Frederick Hartt (1870)
"... mylodons, Mastodons, immense Armadillos and Cats, Horses, &c., in Brazil.
— Remains of a Knee of Man of high Antiquity. ..."
3. Mostly Mammals, Zoological Essays by Richard Lydekker (1903)
"This, however, will not permit us to regard the mylodons as having been the
forerunners of the sloths, seeing that the latter have a less specialised type ..."
4. Mighty Animals: Being Short Talks about Some of the Animals which Lived on by Jennie Irene Mix (1912)
"But, although the mylodons were not as good fighters as were the ... It has been
proved beyond all question that the mylodons were living after man appeared ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The mylodons belong to the group of ground-sloths, and are generally included in
the family ... mylodons are essentially a South American group, ..."
6. Extinct Animals by Edwin Ray Lankester (1905)
"It shows the small oval ossicles scattered in the deep substance of the skin.
twenty mylodons have been obtained from the cavern, and many of the bones have ..."
7. The Earth and Its Life by A. Waddingham Seers (1922)
"Further exploration revealed the skeletons of about twenty mylodons, ... The most
likely conjecture seems to be that the mylodons had been kept there by ..."
8. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"TS PALMER mentioned the reported occurrence in Patagonia of a living representative
of the extinct mylodons. Mr. GH Hicks exhibited specimens of Pinu» ..."
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