Nesodon
Sign in to saveNesodon ("island tooth") is a genus of Miocene mammal belonging to the extinct order Notoungulata which inhabited southern South America during the Late Oligocene to Miocene living from 29.0 to 16.3 Ma and existed for approximately . It had a relatively large size, weighing up to 554 kg (1221 lbs) and reaching 1.5 m in height.
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- Parent taxon
- Toxodontidae
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- Nesodon imbricatus.JPG
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- Nesodon
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- Nesodon
- start time
- 23030000-0
- end time
- 15500000-0
- time period
- Middle Miocene
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Nesodon ("island tooth") is a genus of Miocene mammal belonging to the extinct order Notoungulata which inhabited southern South America during the Late Oligocene to Miocene living from 29.0 to 16.3 Ma and existed for approximately . It had a relatively large size, weighing up to 554 kg (1221 lbs) and reaching 1.5 m in height.
== Taxonomy == thumb|left|N. imbricatus restoration by Charles R. Knight, 1905 Nesodon was named by Owen (1846). It was assigned to Toxodontidae by Carroll (1988). It was an early member of the family Toxodontidae, which included the well-known Pleistocene genus Toxodon. Like almost all toxodontids, Nesodon was endemic to South America. In particular, fossils of Nesodon are known from late early Miocene (Santacrucian SALMA) deposits of Argentina and Chile.
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