edentates

The largest of the edentates was the Megatherium, a. clumsy ground sloth bigger than a rhinoceros.

The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

The rest of the mammalian group includes the marsupials, edentates, a single armadillo species, several rodents, primates, a few carnivores, and deer.

Trinidad and Tobago moist forests 2008

The rest of the mammalian group includes the marsupials, edentates, several rodents, primates, a few carnivores, and deer.

Trinidad and Tobago dry forests 2008

Accounts of the Mato Grosso (upper Xingu River) expedition by the Royal Society and Royal Geographical Society from 1967-69, mention that there are 46 genera of rodents including the largest of all, the capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), 52 genera of bats, 3 of marsupials and 11 of edentates.

Mato Grosso tropical dry forests 2008

The rest of the mammalian group includes the marsupials, edentates, a single armadillo species, several rodents, primates, a few carnivores, and deer.

Trinidad mangroves 2007

Here and there turkeys showed themselves with their milk and coffee-colored plumage; and peccaries, a sort of wild pig highly appreciated by lovers of venison, and agouties, which are the hares and rabbits of Central America; and tatous belonging to the order of edentates, with their scaly shells of patterns of mosaic.

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

A similarly significant evidence of relationship is afforded by processes of the zygomatic region of the skull in certain edentates existing and extinct.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

Aside from marsupials and New World monkeys, its most characteristic animals were edentates and very queer ungulates with no resemblance to those of any other continent.

VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant 1916

These were the ground-sloths, giant edentates, which reached an extraordinary development in the southern half of our hemisphere, where distant and diminutive relatives—tree-sloths, ant-eaters, armadillos—still live.

VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant 1916

The edentates not only included various ground-sloths, among them the megatherium, which was the size of an elephant, and the somewhat smaller mylodon, but also creatures as fantastic as those of a nightmare.

VIII. Primeval Man; and the Horse, the Lion, and the Elephant 1916