Trigodon gaudryi

Trigodon is an extinct genus of the family Toxodontidae, a large-bodied notoungulate which inhabited South America during the Late Miocene to Early Pliocene, living from 11.61 to 4.0 Ma which existed for approximately 7.61 million years. The type species is T. gaudryi. It bore a superficial resemblance to a rhinoceros, in that it had a horn on its forehead, and was one of a few horned notoungulates, including Adinotherium and Leontinia.

Trigodon gaudryi

Florentino Ameghino · Public Domain · 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
TrigodonPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Trigodon
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At most 1.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 3.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPliocene — about 5 of 5 occurrencesPliocene5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–5.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.0–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.9–4.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.8–4.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.7–4.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.6–4.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.6–4.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.5–4.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.4–4.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.3–4.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.1–4.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.0–3.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.9–3.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.8–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.83 Mya3.1 Mya

5 occurrences of Trigodon gaudryi on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

5 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

1 formation

Monte Hermoso — 38.00°S, 61.00°WMonte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WMonte Hermoso — 38.98°S, 61.82°W

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The named rock units Trigodon gaudryi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trigodon gaudryi and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Trigodon gaudryi and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

129 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Trigodon gaudryi, and this reads all 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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. 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 Trigodon gaudryi

Credit
Florentino Ameghino
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Trigodon gaudryi was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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What may have been alongside itTrigodon through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

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