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Pericotoxodon

Pericotoxodon is an extinct genus of toxodontid notoungulate, from the Miocene period. Fossils of Pericotoxodon were found near Río Inuya and Mapuya in Peru, and in La Venta, Colombia and Bolivia, in deposits dated to the Middle Miocene.

Pericotoxodon
Temporal range: Middle Miocene (Laventan)
~13.8–11.8 Ma
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Notoungulata
Family: Toxodontidae
Genus: Pericotoxodon
Madden 1997
Species:
P. platignathus
Binomial name
Pericotoxodon platignathus
Madden, 1997

Etymology edit

The genus name, Pericotoxodon, is derived from "Perico", which was named after José Espíritu Pericó, who discovered the holotype in the La Gaviota locality from the Villavieja Formation of Colombia.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Richard H. Madden. "21. A New Toxodontid Notoungulate" (335–354 pp.). In Kay, Richard F.; Madden, Richard H.; Cifelli, Richard L.; Flynn, John J. Vertebrate Paleontology in the Neotropics: The Miocene Fauna of a la Venta, Colombia. Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Inc., 2/1/1997.


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