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Definition of Megatheres
1. megathere [n] - See also: megathere
Lexicographical Neighbors of Megatheres
Literary usage of Megatheres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"The megatheres were very bulky, the largest measuring about eighteen feet in ...
"Some idea of the gigantic proportions of the megatheres," Lydekker tells ..."
2. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1882)
"... and megatheres. The special characters of the maims iu these three families
are all derivations from a common type ; but in this portion of their ..."
3. Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil: With a Full Account of the Gold by Richard Francis Burton (1869)
"... and nothing could be quainter than the shapes : here they were gigantic frogs
and " antediluvian," ie Tertiary beasts, megatheres and ..."
4. Palaeontology Or A Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and Their by Richard Owen (1861)
"... the smaller kinds conceal themselves and escape. Small quadrupeds are more
prolific than large ones. Those of the bulk of the Mastodons, megatheres, ..."
5. Additions to the Pleistocene Mammal Faunas of South Carolina, North Carolina by Albert E. Sanders (2002)
"These discoveries are of particular significance because they are the earliest
evidence of megatheres in North America. Remains of four other mammalian taxa ..."
6. Pater Mundi: Or, Doctrine of Evolution by Enoch Fitch Burr (1873)
"... of the very highest reptile structure—with great organic blanks just behind
them — began the Age of Reptiles. Huge land-mammals, as the megatheres and ..."
7. Memoir on the Megatherium, and Other Extinct Gigantic Quadrupeds of the by William Brown Hodgson, Joseph Clay Habersham, James Hamilton Couper (1846)
"... subsequently discovered the fossils of two other megatheres; and such has been
the success of enterprising naturalists, that Mr. Owen has noticed the ..."
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