Nesodon
Extinct genus of notoungulates / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nesodon ("island tooth")[3] 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 12.7 million years. [4] It had a relatively large size, weighing up to 554 kg (1221 lbs) and reaching 1.5 m in height.[5]
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Nesodon imbricatus skeleton | |
Nesodon imbricatus skull | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Notoungulata |
Family: | †Toxodontidae |
Subfamily: | †Nesodontinae |
Genus: | †Nesodon Owen, 1846 |
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†Nesodon imbricatus | |
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