 Cheek teeth in "Glossotherium" are larger, have more complex shapes, and retain more of the cementum layer around all sides of each tooth than the Shasta ground sloth, "Nothrotheriops shastensis", and tree sloths.Fossils of this animal have been found in South America and Mexico.It is closely related to "Paramylodon" of North America, whose specimens have often been confused with it and assigned to "Glossotherium", which in turn was initially assigned to "Mylodon".