left|thumb|Closeup of the skull with the jugal bone missing Parocnus is an extinct genus of sloth native to Cuba and Hispaniola, belonging to the family Megalocnidae. It was a terrestrial ground sloth, being the second largest Caribbean sloth after Megalocnus, with the body mass of the various species of the genus estimated at around , comparable to a pig.
left|thumb|Closeup of the skull with the jugal bone missing Parocnus is an extinct genus of sloth native to Cuba and Hispaniola, belonging to the family Megalocnidae. It was a terrestrial ground sloth, being the second largest Caribbean sloth after Megalocnus, with the body mass of the various species of the genus estimated at around , comparable to a pig.
==Taxonomy== After †Parocnus browni Pleistocene to Holocene, Cuba †Parocnus serus Pleistocene to Holocene, Hispaniola (synonym Megalocnus zile) †Parocnus dominicanus Pleistocene to Holocene, Hispaniola
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