| Named By: | Richard Owen in 1840 |
| Time Period: | Pleistocene to Holocene |
| Location: | South America |
| Size: | About 3 meters long. Weight estimates at 200 kilograms |
| Diet: | Herbivore |
| Fossil(s): | Many specimens including exceptionally preserved hair and dung samples |
| Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Xenarthra | Pilosa | Mylodontidae | Mylodontinae | |
Mylodon is an extinct genus of ground sloth that lived in the Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) area of South America until roughly 10,000 years ago.