Xotodon major Rovereto 1914 (notoungulate)

Mammalia - Notoungulata - Toxodontidae

Full reference: C. Rovereto. 1914. Los Estratos Araucanos y sus fósiles. Anales del Museo de Historia Natural de Buenos Aire 25:1-247

Belongs to Xotodon according to C. Rovereto 1914

Sister taxa: Xotodon ambrosettii, Xotodon caravela, Xotodon catamarcensis, Xotodon cristatus, Xotodon doellojuradoi, Xotodon foricurvatus, Xotodon maimarensis, Xotodon prominens, Xotodon smaltatus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Huayquerías del Este (Tunuyán Fm), which is in a Messinian/Zanclean fluvial sandstone in the Tunuyán Formation of Argentina

Ecology: scansorial grazer

Distribution:

• Huayquerian of Argentina (1 collection)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Argentina (1)

• Miocene of Argentina (1)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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