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Toxodon platensis Owen, 1837

The Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom

  • Title: Toxodon platensis Owen, 1837
  • Type status: Holotype
  • Specific epithet: platensis
  • Scientific name authorship: Owen, 1837
  • Phylum: Chordata
  • Order: Notoungulata
  • Locality: 120 miles N W of Montevideo
  • Latest era or highest erathem: Cenozoic
  • Latest eon or highest eonothem: Phanerozoic
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Higher geography: South America; Uruguay; 120 miles N W of Montevideo
  • Higher classification: Animalia; Chordata; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Notoungulata; Toxodontidae
  • Genus: Toxodon
  • Family: Toxodontidae
  • Earliest period or lowest system: Quaternary
  • Earliest era or lowest erathem: Cenozoic
  • Earliest epoch or lowest series: Pleistocene
  • Earliest eon or Lowest eonothem: Phanerozoic
  • Country: Uruguay
  • Continent: South America
  • Class: Mammalia
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