Glossotherium – back of skull

This is a CT scan of the back of the cranium of *Glossotherium*. It was collected on 26/11/1833 in Uruguay by Charles Darwin and is approximately 12,700 years old. It is part of the Earth Sciences collection at the Natural History Museum, London. This has been scanned as part of the Museum’s Darwin Fossil Mammals digitisation project. Find out more at www.nhm.ac.uk/darwinsfossils. 261mm x 158mm x 127mm. [What was *Glossotherium*? ](https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/our-work/digital-collections/digital-collections-programme/darwins-ground-sloths.html) Specimen number NHMUK PV M 16586 Visit the dataset (https://doi.org/10.5519/0086786) and specimen record (https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/3e81c21f-721c-47a8-94c6-9bba0e493d36) on the Museum’s Data Portal for images and to request high resolution scan data.