Xotodon

{{Short description|Extinct genus of mammals}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Xotodon.jpg

| image_caption =Xotodon sp. skull at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin

| fossil_range = Late Miocene (Huayquerian)
~{{fossil range|9.0|6.8}}

| taxon = Xotodon

| authority = Ameghino, 1887

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| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

  • Xotodon caravela
  • Xotodon catamarcensis {{small|Lydekker, 1894}}
  • Xotodon doellojuradi {{small|Frenguelli, 1920}}
  • Xotodon foricurvatus {{small|(Ameghino, 1885)}}
  • Xotodon maimarensis

}}

Xotodon is an extinct genus of toxodontid mammal that lived during the Late Miocene (Huayquerian in the SALMA classification) in Argentina, South America.{{Cite journal | last1 = Nasif | first1 = N. L. | last2 = Musalem | first2 = S. A. | last3 = Cerdeño | first3 = E. | title = A new toxodont from the Late Miocene of Catamarca, Argentina, and a phylogenetic analysis of the Toxodontidae | journal = Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | volume = 20 | issue = 3 | pages = 591 | year = 2000 | doi = 10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0591:ANTFTL]2.0.CO;2 | s2cid = 85788431 }} Fossils of Xotodon have been found in the Ituzaingó, Maimará and Chiquimil Formations of Argentina.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=43407 Xotodon] at Fossilworks.org

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