Mixotoxodon larensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MixotoxodonPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Notoungulata
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 4.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.
22 occurrences of Mixotoxodon larensis on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
22 occurrences- Pliocene4%
- Pleistocene96%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Mixotoxodon larensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Mixotoxodon larensis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Mixotoxodon larensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
169 taxa- Eremotherium laurillardi9 sites
- Glyptotherium6 sites
- Odocoileus6 sites
- Cuvieronius hyodon5 sites
- Eremotherium5 sites
- Neochoerus5 sites
- Equus4 sites
- Equus conversidens4 sites
- Mammuthus columbi4 sites
- Gomphotheriidae3 sites
- Mazama3 sites
- Megalonyx3 sites
- Cairina moschata2 sites
- Canis2 sites
- Cuvieronius2 sites
- Glyptodon clavipes2 sites
- Glyptotherium cylindricum2 sites
- Holmesina2 sites
- Megatherium2 sites
- Neochoerus aesopi2 sites
- Odocoileus virginianus2 sites
- Palaeolama2 sites
- Smilodon populator2 sites
- Sylvilagus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Mixotoxodon larensis, 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
15 references- Guatemala's Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) fauna: Revision and interpretation5
- The fossil mammals of Nicaragua2
- Late Cenozoic Vertebrates from Honduras and El Salvador2
- A fossil collection from northern Venezuela. 1. Toxodontidae (Mammalia, Notoungulata)2
- Late Pleistocene toxodont remains of Tamaulipas, Mexico. Confirmation of the occurrence of Mixotoxodon larensis (Van Frank, 1957) and an analysis of sexual dimorphism1
- Late Pleistocene mammals from El Hatillo, Panama1
- Mam'iferos del Pleistoceno superior de Santiago del Estero (Argentina) y sus afinidades paleobiogeográficas1
- New remains of Mixotoxodon larensis Van Frank 1957 (Mammalia: Notoungulata) from Mene de Inciarte Tar Pit, north-western Venezuela1
- A new occurrence of Toxodonts in the Pleistocene of México1
- A preliminary assessment of the mammalian fauna from the Pliocene-Pleistocene El Breal de Orocual locality, Monagas state, Venezuela1
- Pleistocene Mammals from Yeroconte, Honduras1
- New Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from El Salvador1
Each of the 22 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. 3 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 Mixotoxodon larensis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Sergiodlarosa (Sergio De La Rosa)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Mixotoxodon larensis 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMixotoxodon through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Van Frank 1957