Toxodontia

Toxodontia is a suborder of the meridiungulate order Notoungulata. Most of the members of the five included families, including the largest notoungulates, share several dental, auditory and tarsal specializations. The group is named after Toxodon, the first example of the group to be discovered by science.

Toxodontia

Sergiodlarosa (Sergio De La Rosa) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NotoungulataPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Notoungulata
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 57 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 6 of 793 occurrencesEocene — about 196 of 793 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 99 of 793 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 280 of 793 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 57 of 793 occurrencesPleistocene — about 151 of 793 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 5 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 9 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 9 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 9 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 9 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 22 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 26 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 26 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 19 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 35 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 22 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 7 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 10 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 12 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 12 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 26 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 20 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 20 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 19 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 16 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 21 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 100 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 7 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 35 occurrences12–9.7 Mya — about 26 occurrences9.7–7.8 Mya — about 23 occurrences7.8–5.8 Mya — about 30 occurrences5.8–3.9 Mya — about 41 occurrences3.9–1.9 Mya — about 40 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 139 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka58 Mya0 Mya

793 occurrences of Toxodontia on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

793 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

102 formations

Sarmiento — 44.67°S, 68.42°WSarmiento — 44.38°S, 68.75°WSarmiento — 44.42°S, 68.67°WSarmiento — 45.23°S, 67.49°WSarmiento — 45.40°S, 67.72°WSarmiento — 45.33°S, 68.00°WSarmiento — 45.67°S, 68.67°WSarmiento — 45.77°S, 69.00°WSarmiento — 43.75°S, 69.58°WSarmiento — 46.68°S, 68.35°WSarmiento — 44.02°S, 68.02°WSarmiento — 46.74°S, 67.11°WSarmiento — 47.03°S, 66.48°WSarmiento — 44.50°S, 66.00°WSarmiento — 45.08°S, 68.33°WSarmiento — 44.35°S, 69.78°WSanta Cruz — 51.02°S, 69.15°WSanta Cruz — 51.20°S, 69.12°WSanta Cruz — 50.16°S, 69.67°WSanta Cruz — 50.27°S, 70.37°WSanta Cruz — 50.36°S, 71.84°WSanta Cruz — 50.25°S, 71.07°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.42°WSanta Cruz — 51.05°S, 69.13°WSanta Cruz — 50.85°S, 69.13°WSanta Cruz — 50.55°S, 69.22°WSanta Cruz — 50.05°S, 70.44°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 69.47°WSanta Cruz — 50.00°S, 70.00°WSanta Cruz — 50.60°S, 69.08°WSanta Cruz — 50.75°S, 69.18°WSanta Cruz — 51.34°S, 69.02°WSanta Cruz — 51.35°S, 69.00°WSanta Cruz — 50.32°S, 72.10°WSanta Cruz — 47.52°S, 71.90°WSanta Cruz — 47.58°S, 71.85°WSanta Cruz — 50.28°S, 70.28°WSanta Cruz — 51.60°S, 69.56°WSanta Cruz — 51.57°S, 68.95°WSanta Cruz — 50.35°S, 68.97°WSolimões — 10.13°S, 67.81°WSolimões — 9.05°S, 68.77°WSolimões — 10.95°S, 69.65°WSolimões — 10.94°S, 69.52°WSolimões — 8.18°S, 72.78°WSolimões — 9.39°S, 72.72°WSolimões — 8.30°S, 73.27°WSolimões — 8.67°S, 72.82°WSolimões — 8.83°S, 72.78°WSolimões — 8.88°S, 72.78°WSolimões — 8.98°S, 72.72°WSolimões — 9.00°S, 72.76°WSolimões — 9.13°S, 72.67°WSolimões — 9.16°S, 72.71°WSolimões — 9.28°S, 72.69°WSolimões — 6.50°S, 69.67°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WLa Victoria — 3.22°N, 75.22°WLa Victoria — 3.30°N, 75.17°WLa Victoria — 3.35°N, 75.14°WLa Victoria — 3.24°N, 75.11°WLa Victoria — 3.37°N, 75.15°WLa Victoria — 3.36°N, 75.16°WSolimoes — 10.12°S, 66.88°WSolimoes — 10.94°S, 69.34°WVillavieja — 3.24°N, 75.18°WVillavieja — 3.26°N, 75.19°WVillavieja — 3.32°N, 75.13°WVillavieja — 3.23°N, 75.15°WMonte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WMonte Hermoso — 38.00°S, 61.00°WMonte Hermoso — 38.98°S, 61.82°WLumbrera — 22.86°S, 65.53°WLumbrera — 25.52°S, 65.52°WLumbrera — 25.72°S, 65.40°WAbanico — 34.98°S, 70.43°WDeseado — 47.90°S, 66.25°WCerro Azul — 35.69°S, 64.67°WCerro Azul — 38.76°S, 62.16°WCerro Azul — 37.37°S, 65.47°WCerro Azul — 37.73°S, 63.53°WCerro Azul — 35.92°S, 64.87°WCerro Azul — 37.22°S, 63.59°WCerro Azul — 36.00°S, 65.00°WAgua de la Piedra — 36.55°S, 69.70°WPozo — 7.33°S, 74.95°WPozo — 6.57°S, 76.27°WLas Flores — 45.37°S, 67.74°WLas Flores — 45.40°S, 67.18°WLas Flores — 45.60°S, 69.08°WLujan — 36.78°S, 59.87°WLujan — 38.57°S, 58.70°WLujan — 34.60°S, 59.15°WUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.27°WUrumaco — 11.18°N, 70.23°WSalla — 17.18°S, 67.63°WArroyo Chasico — 38.64°S, 63.00°WArroyo Chasico — 38.40°S, 63.85°WLas Chacras — 41.36°S, 69.62°WLas Chacras — 41.37°S, 69.65°WGeste — 26.06°S, 67.41°WUpper Moquegua — 17.21°S, 71.01°WUpper Moquegua — 17.28°S, 71.05°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.12°S, 60.43°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.07°S, 60.55°WSalto Ander Egg — 32.28°S, 60.37°WQuebrada de los Colorados — 25.47°S, 65.94°WQuebrada de los Colorados — 24.12°S, 66.15°WQuebrada de los Colorados — 25.22°S, 66.03°W

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The named rock units Toxodontia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 78 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 234 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Toxodontia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Toxodontia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,948 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 396 sites for Toxodontia, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

262 references

Each of the 793 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 250 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Toxodontia

Credit
Sergiodlarosa (Sergio De La Rosa)
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Toxodontia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1887