Trigodon

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammal}}

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| fossil_range = Late Miocene-Pliocene (Mayoan-Montehermosan)
~{{fossil range|11.608|4.0}}

| image = Trigodon.jpg

| image_caption = Restoration by Robert Bruce Horsfall

| parent_authority = Ameghino, 1887

| taxon = Trigodon gaudryi

| authority = Ameghino, 1887

| display_parents = 2

}}

Trigodon is an extinct genus of the family Toxodontidae, a large bodied notoungulate which inhabited South America during the Late Miocene to Early Pliocene (Mayoan to Montehermosan in the SALMA classification), living from 11.61 to 4.0 Ma and existed for approximately {{Mya|11.61-4.0|million years}}. The type species is T. gaudryi.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=43406 Trigodon] at Fossilworks.org

It bore a superficial resemblance to a rhinoceros, in that it had a horn on its forehead.{{cite web | last = Long | first = Michael | title = Trigodon (with image) | publisher = The Natural History Museum

| date = | url = http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/results.asp?image=045068 | format = web

| doi = | accessdate = 2007-01-15 }}