Scelidotherium leptocephalum - cast of ankle

This is a structured light scan of a cast of the left astragalus from the holotype skeleton of *Scelidotherium leptocephalum*. The cast was made at the Royal College of Surgeons of England between 1834 and 1887. 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. 108mm x 94mm x 75mm. [What was *Scelidotherium*? ](https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/our-work/digital-collections/digital-collections-programme/darwins-ground-sloths.html) Specimen number NHMUK PV M 3588 Visit the dataset (https://doi.org/10.5519/0086786) and specimen record (https://data.nhm.ac.uk/object/18a8e868-fba6-4a69-a23f-c66a2e541658) on the Museum’s Data Portal for images and to request high resolution scan data.