Toxodontidae

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Toxodontidae
Fossil range: late Oligocene to late Pleistocene
Toxodon platensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: †Notoungulata
Suborder: †Toxodonta
Family: †Toxodontidae
Owen, 1845
Subfamilies and Genera

†Haplodontheriinae

  • †Abothrodon
  • †Haplodontherium
  • †Mesotoxodon
  • †Mixotoxodon
  • †Ocnerotherium
  • †Pachynodon
  • †Paratrigodon
  • †Prototrigodon
  • †Toxodontherium
  • †Trigodon
  • †Trigodonops

†Nesodontinae

†Toxodontinae

  • †Andinotoxodon
  • †Ceratoxodon
  • †Chapalmalodon
  • †Dinotoxodon
  • †Eutomodus
  • †Gyrinodon
  • †Hemixotodon
  • †Hyperotoxodon
  • †Mesenodon
  • †Minitoxodon
  • †Neoadinotherium
  • †Neotoxodon
  • †Nesodonopsis
  • †Nonotherium
  • †Pericotoxodon
  • †Pisanodon
  • †Plesiotoxodon
  • †Stenotephanos
  • †Stereotoxodon
  • †Toxodon

Toxodontidae is an extinct family of notoungulate mammals known from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene of South America, with one genus, Mixotoxodon, known from the Pleistocene of Central America (McKenna and Bell, 1997).

[edit] References

  • McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8
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