Trigodon
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Trigodon Temporal range: late Miocene to Pliocene |
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| Restoration by Robert Bruce Horsfall | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | †Notoungulata |
| Family: | †Toxodontidae |
| Subfamily: | †Haplodontheriinae |
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†Trigodon Ameghino, 1887 |
| Species: | †T. gaudryi |
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†Trigodon gaudryi |
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Trigodon gaudryi is an extinct species of the family Toxodontidae, a large bodied notoungulate which inhabited South America during the Miocene living from 11.61—7.25 Ma and existed for approximately 4.36 million years.
It bore a strong, albeit superficial resemblance to a rhinoceros, in that it had a horn on its forehead.
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