Mammalia - Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Full reference: F. Ameghino. 1889. Contribución al conocimiento de los mamíferos fósiles de la República Argentina [Contribution to the knowledge of the fossil mammals of the Argentine Republic]. Actas de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de la República Argentina en Córdoba 6:xxxii-1027
Parent taxon: Eutoxodontia according to G. Martínez et al. 2020
See also Ameghino 1887, Ameghino 1889, Ameghino 1907, Billet 2011, Carroll 1988, Cope 1889, Deraco and GarcÍa-López 2016, Flower and Lydekker 1891, Gregory 1910, Lydekker 1894, MacFadden et al. 1993, Paula Couto 1956, Silva Lacerda et al. 2020 and Simpson 1934
Sister taxa: Argyrohippus, Eomorphippus, Eurygenium, Leontiniidae, Mendozahippus, Moqueguahippus, Morphippus, Notohippus, Pascualihippus, Patagonhippus, Rosendo, Teushentherium
Subtaxa: Alitoxodon Charruatoxodon Dilobodon Dinotoxodontinae Hemixotodon Hyperoxotodon Mixotoxodon Morphippus corrugatus Nesodonopsis Nesodontinae Ocnerotherium Oriadubitherium Palaeotoxodon Palyeidodon Paratrigodon Pisanodon Posnanskytherium Proadinotherium Prototrigodon Stenotephanos Toxodon Toxodontinae Xotodon
Type: Toxodontinae
Ecology: scansorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (32 collections), Bolivia (6), Brazil (56), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), El Salvador (3), Guatemala (6), Honduras (2), Mexico (2), Nicaragua (3), Panama (2), Paraguay (3), Peru (1), United States (1: Texas), Uruguay (6), Venezuela (5)
• Blancan of El Salvador (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Argentina (2), Uruguay (2), Venezuela (2)
• Pliocene of Argentina (16), Bolivia (6), Colombia (2), Peru (3), Venezuela (2)
• Huayquerian of Argentina (13)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Argentina (2), Brazil (1), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (61), Bolivia (5), Brazil (4), Chile (8), Colombia (15), Peru (7), Venezuela (7)
• Neogene of Argentina (1)
• Deseadan of Argentina (5), Bolivia (2)
• Oligocene of Peru (2)
• Eocene to Pliocene of Brazil (2)
Total: 302 collections including 384 occurrences