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Xotodon
Temporal range: Late Miocene (Huayquerian)
~9.0–6.8 Ma
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Xotodon sp. skull at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
†Notoungulata
Family:
†Toxodontidae
Subfamily:
†Toxodontinae
Genus:
†Xotodon

Ameghino, 1887
Species
  • †X. caravela
  • †X. catamarcensis
  • †X. foricurvatus
  • †X. maimarensis

Xotodon is an extinct genus of toxodontid mammal that lived during the Late Miocene (Huayquerian in the SALMA classification) in Argentina, South America.[1] Fossils of Xotodon have been found in the Ituzaingó and Chiquimil Formations of Argentina.[2]

References

  1. ^ Nasif, N. L.; Musalem, S. A.; Cerdeño, E. (2000). "A new toxodont from the Late Miocene of Catamarca, Argentina, and a phylogenetic analysis of the Toxodontidae". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 20 (3): 591. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0591:ANTFTL]2.0.CO;2.
  2. ^ Xotodon at Fossilworks.org
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