- to the perissodactyls. In 2014, a
study identifying a new
species of
toxodontid resolved the families'
phylogenetic relations. The
below cladogram was...
-
diversity declined from the late
Neogene onwards, with only the
large toxodontids persisting until the end of the
Pleistocene (with
Mixotoxodon expanding...
-
Although the
general appearance probably was very
similar to
another toxodontid from the Pleistocene, the
better known Toxodon,
their fossils shown that...
-
years ago), when they
reached their apex of diversity. The
diversity of
toxodontids,
along with
other notoungulates began to
decline from
around the Pliocene...
-
Reconstruction of
Mixotoxodon larenis, a
toxodontid notoungulate...
-
which included the well-known
Pleistocene genus Toxodon. Like
almost all
toxodontids,
Nesodon was
endemic to
South America. In particular,
fossils of Nesodon...
-
gomphothere (elephant relative) Cuvieronius, as well as
ground sloths,
toxodontids, and glyptodonts. The
concept of
evolutionary anachronisms/megafaunal...
-
reduced lateral digits.
Toxodontids first appeared during the
Oligocene in the form of Proadinotherium.
Another well-known
toxodontid is Nesodon, a medium-sized...
-
northern onslaught. (Several of the
largest forms,
macraucheniids and
toxodontids, have long been
recognized to have
survived to the end of the Pleistocene...
-
Xotodon is an
extinct genus of
toxodontid mammal that
lived during the Late
Miocene (Huayquerian in the
SALMA classification) in Argentina,
South America...
