Toxodon
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| Toxodon Fossil range: Pliocene-Pleistocene | ||||||||||||||
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| Image:Toxodon.jpg Toxodon platensis
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Toxodon ("Archer's bow teeth") is a genus of extinct South American ungulate, ecologically similar to the hippopotamus, that lived in the late Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs in South America. Toxodon was among the few notoungulates to survive the Great American Interchange, and is presumed to have died out due to human predation and/or climatic changes during the Pleistocene. Its fossils were first studied by Charles Darwin on his voyage on the Beagle. It is speculated that these animals lived very much like hippopotamuses in South America, and were almost certainly hunted by Smilodon populator.
T. platensis was a large squat herbivore (about 2.75 m (9 feet) long and 1.5 m (5 feet) high) with the general appearance of a rhinoceros.
External links
- http://www.toyen.uio.no/palmus/galleri/montre/english/a31962_63.htm Toxodon platensis - brief description and fossil skull
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