What is "thinobadistes"

Thinobadistes is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Mylodontidae, endemic to North America during the Miocene- Pleistocene epochs. It lived from 13.6—5.3 mya, existing for approximately .

Thinobadistes and Pliometanastes were the first of the giant sloths to appear in N. America. Both Pliometanastes and Thinobadistes were in N. America before the Panamanian Land Bridge formed around 2.5 million years ago. It is then reasonable to presume that the ancestors of Thinobadistes island-hopped across the Central American Seaway from South America, where sloths in general first evolved.