PaleoDB taxon number: 395655

Belongs to Megatherium according to Moreno and Mercerat 1891

Sister taxa: Megatherium altiplanicum, Megatherium americanum, Megatherium antiquum, Megatherium celendinense, Megatherium gallardoi, Megatherium gaudryi, Megatherium istilarti, Megatherium lundi, Megatherium medinae, Megatherium sundti, Megatherium tarijense, Megatherium uquiense, Megatherium urbinai, Neoracanthus burmeisteri, Neoracanthus brackebuschianus

Type specimen: MLP 2-66, a set of limb elements (complete pes). Its type locality is Santa Maria Valley Andalhuala Fm, which is in a Montehermosan/Chapadmalalan terrestrial horizon in the Andalhuala Formation of Argentina.