Ground Sloths Descended from Tree Living Ancestors

Description: Ground Sloths Descended from Tree Living Ancestors. Hall 38 Case 37 completed and installed. Painting of Hapalops longipatatus. Early Miocene Patagonia by John Conrad Hansen. Prontothrotherium typicum Early Pliocene Northwestern Argentina signed w/JCH initials. Two Toed Tree Sloth Choloepus hoffmanni Recent Central and South America signed w/JCH initials skeleton of same hanging from a tree branch with two Charles Knight paintings above, (Whales of the Eocene Seas) Primitive Whales Zeuglodos 60,000,000 Years Ago sign underneath and partial painting in view of Hippos? by CK.
Attribution: (c) Field Museum of Natural History
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Department(s)
  • Library
  • Photo Archives
  • Geology
Subject(s)
  • ISL2021
Creator(s)
  • Photographer: Charles H. Carpenter : Field Museum of Natural History
Date: Created 12 Jul 1943
Physical Size and Format: 11x14 in. b/w negative
Citation: https://mm.fieldmuseum.org/2a3483be-c40c-46da-b669-ceb95c7c6e70 (accessed on 04 May 2024)
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Ground Sloths Descended from Tree Living Ancestors. Hall 38 Case 37 completed and installed. Painting of Hapalops longipatatus. Early Miocene Patagonia by John Conrad Hansen. Prontothrotherium typicum Early Pliocene Northwestern Argentina signed w/JCH initials. Two Toed Tree Sloth Choloepus hoffmanni Recent Central and South America signed w/JCH initials skeleton of same hanging from a tree branch with two Charles Knight paintings above, (Whales of the Eocene Seas) Primitive Whales Zeuglodos 60,000,000 Years Ago sign underneath and partial painting in view of Hippos? by CK.