Toxodontia

Toxodontia
Temporal range:
Mixotoxodon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Notoungulata
Suborder: Toxodontia
Families[2]

Toxodontia[3] 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.[4] The group is named after Toxodon, the first example of the group to be discovered by science.

  1. ^ Martínez, Gastón; Dozo, María T.; Gelfo, Javier N.; Ciancio, Martín R.; González-José, Rolando (2020-12-16). "A new toxodont (Mammalia, Panperissodactyla, Notoungulata) from the Oligocene of Patagonia, Argentina, and systematic considerations on the paraphyletic 'Notohippidae'". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 18 (24): 1995–2013. doi:10.1080/14772019.2021.1872723. ISSN 1477-2019. S2CID 232116246.
  2. ^ "Toxodonta". Mikko's Phylogeny Archive. Archived from the original on June 22, 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
  3. ^ Toxodontia in the Paleobiology Database. Retrieved April 2013.
  4. ^ Rose 2006, pp. 230–1

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