| Named By: | Barnum Brown in 1903 |
| Time Period: | late Pliocene to Pleistocene |
| Location: | Canada, Guatemala, Mexico and USA |
| Size: | Roughly about 3 meters long |
| Diet: | Herbivore |
| Fossil(s): | Multiple specimens, some almost complete |
| Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Xenarthra | Pilosa | Mylodontidae | Mylodontinae | |
Paramylodon is an extinct genus of ground sloth of the family Mylodontidae endemic to North America during the Pliocene through Pleistocene epochs, living from around ~4.9 Mya-11,000 years ago. It is also known as Harlan's ground sloth.