from bones found at Big Bone Lick. In 1840, the species was renamed Mylodon harlani to honor Harlan, and is now known as Paramylodon harlani.

By the mid-19th century most of the fossils had been removed, and in 1868 paleontologist Nathaniel Southgate Shaler conducted an extensive excavation to remove all remaining fossils and take them to the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology for study.