The Uruguayan physician Teodoro Vilardebó attended the school of medicine in Paris in the first half of the 1800s. In 1857, he died in Montevideo during a bout of yellow fever. As a fossil merchant, he sold collections of fossil mammals from South America to the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris. Among them, the forelimb of the specimen of GLOSSOTHERIUM ROBUSTUM shown here, was carefully photographed to digitally reconstruct it through photogrammetry.

References:
- Irina Podgorny (2011): Mercaderes del pasado: Teodoro Vilardebó, Pedro de Angelis y el comercio de huesos y documentos en el Río de la Plata, 1830-1850, in: Circumscribere 9/2011, 29-77.

The forelimb of the specimen of GLOSSTHERIUM ROBUSTUM shown here, was carefully photographed to digitally reconstruct it through photogrammetry.

Forelimb Sloth (GLOSSOTHERIUM ROBUSTUM)

megafauna, paleontology, sloth, digital reconstruction, fossil merchantry

Collected in first half of 19th Century by the Uruguayan physician Teodoro Vilardebó.

First half of 19th Century

Uruguay

Fossil bone

Inventory number: PAM 108

Project: SciCoMove - Scientific Collections on the Move: Provincial Museums, Archives and Collecting Practices (1800-1950).
Funding: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101007579.
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„Digital Reproduction of Forelimb Sloth,” SciCoMove, zuletzt aufgerufen am 11. Mai 2025, https://ausstellungen.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/scicomove/items/show/10.