Xotodon

Xotodon is an extinct genus of toxodontid mammal that lived during the Late Miocene in Argentina, South America. Fossils of Xotodon have been found in the Ituzaingó, Maimará and Chiquimil Formations of Argentina.

Xotodon

FunkMonk · 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
ToxodontidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 4.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 400 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 8 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 21 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 21 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.9–6.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.5–6.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.1–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–5.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.3–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.333 Mya400 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

21 occurrences of Xotodon 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

21 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

15 formations

Monte Hermoso — 38.97°S, 61.70°WItuzaingo — 31.48°S, 60.23°WChiquimil — 26.80°S, 66.07°WAndalhuala — 26.68°S, 66.03°WChapadmalal — 38.12°S, 57.70°WPuerto Belgrano — 38.98°S, 61.82°WMaimará — 23.62°S, 65.41°WPalo Pintado — 25.81°S, 65.48°WCorral Quemado — 27.23°S, 66.93°WAndahuala — 27.29°S, 66.91°WCasa Grande — 31.27°S, 64.45°WTezanos Pinto — 32.07°S, 60.65°WHuayquerías — 33.93°S, 68.46°WCerro Azul — 36.00°S, 65.00°WTunuyán — 33.83°S, 68.50°W

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The named rock units Xotodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Xotodon and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Xotodon and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

369 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Xotodon, 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

12 references

Each of the 21 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 Xotodon

Credit
FunkMonk
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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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 itToxodontidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

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