Toxodon Owen 1837 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Toxodontidae

Parent taxon: Toxodontidae according to L. O. Salles et al. 2006

See also Ameghino 1885, Ameghino 1887, Carroll 1988, Lydekker 1894, Paula Couto 1956, Rovereto 1914 and Zurita et al. 2004

Sister taxa: Alitoxodon, Charruatoxodon, Dilobodon, Dinotoxodontinae, Hemixotodon, Hyperoxotodon, Mixotoxodon, Morphippus corrugatus, Nesodonopsis, Nesodontinae, Ocnerotherium, Oriadubitherium, Palaeotoxodon, Palyeidodon, Paratrigodon, Pisanodon, Posnanskytherium, Proadinotherium, Prototrigodon, Stenotephanos, Toxodontinae, Xotodon

Subtaxa: Toxodon antiquus Toxodon bilobidens Toxodon chapalmalensis Toxodon darwinii Toxodon excavatus Toxodon expansidens Toxodon gezi Toxodon giganteus Toxodon gracilis Toxodon platensis Toxodon protoburmeisteri Toxodon virgatus

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Ecology: scansorial grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Argentina (30 collections), Bolivia (5), Brazil (20), Guatemala (1), Paraguay (2), Peru (1), Uruguay (6)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Argentina (2), Uruguay (1)

• Pliocene of Argentina (1)

• Montehermosan of Argentina (3)

• Miocene of Argentina (1)

• Neogene of Argentina (1)

Total: 74 collections including 80 occurrences

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