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Toxodontherium ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4831585	https://www.gbif.org/species/4831585
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	240026	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=240026

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Haplodontheriidae : Toxodontherium

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Notoungulata : Haplodontheriidae : Toxodontherium

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Notoungulata	Roth 1903
suborder	Toxodontia	Ameghino 1887
family	Haplodontheriidae	Ameghino 1907
genus	Toxodontherium	Ameghino 1883

Scientific Name

Toxodontherium Ameghino, 1883

Name Published In

Bol. Acad. Argent., 5

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Toxodontherium	genus	belongs to Toxodontia	stated without evidence	Ameghino, 1885
Toxodontherium	genus	belongs to Toxodontidae	stated without evidence	Ameghino, 1887
Toxodontherium	genus	belongs to Haplodontheriidae	stated with evidence	Ameghino, 1907

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

11.6 - 7.2 Ma
Miocene

Last Recorded Appearance

6.80 - 3.00 Ma
Neogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Notoungulata)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

F. Ameghino. 1887. Observaciones generales sobre el orden de mamíferos estinguidos sud-americanos llamados toxodontes (Toxodontia) y sinopsis de los géneros y especies hasta ahora conocidos. Anales del Museo de La Plata 1:1-66

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Toxodontherium compressum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	9.00 Ma Miocene	9.00 Ma Miocene
Toxodontherium minus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Toxodontherium reverendum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	9.00 Ma Miocene	9.00 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1883	Toxodontherium Ameghino p. 274
1885	Toxodontherium Ameghino p. 75
1887	Toxodontherium Ameghino p. 42
1894	Toxodontherium Lydekker p. 17
1907	Toxodontherium Ameghino p. 91

References

Ameghino F. Observaciones generales sobre el orden de mamíferos estinguidos sud-americanos llamados toxodontes (Toxodontia) y sinopsis de los géneros y especies hasta ahora conocidos, Anales del Museo de La Plata 1, 1-66

Ameghino F. Nuevos restos de mamíferos fósiles Oligocenos recogidos por el Profesor Pedro Scalabrini y pertenecientes al Museo Provincial de la ciudad del Parana [New remains of Oligocene fossil mammals collected by Professor Pedro Scalabrini and belonging to the Provincial Museum of the city of Parana], Boletín de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias 8, 1-205

Lydekker R. Contributions to a knowledge of the Fossil Vertebrates of Argentina. III - A study of extinct argentine ungulates, Anales del Museo de La Plata. Paleontología Argentina 2 3, 1-86

Ameghino F. (1907) Les toxodontes ¡a cornes [The horned toxodonts], Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires 16, 49-91

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bol. Acad. Argent., 5 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Presumed from author name + absence from Wilson + Reeder (subject to confirmation) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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