Quick Links : Mindat手册 The Rock H. Currier Digital Library Mindat Newsletter [Free Download]

主页关于 Mindat Mindat手册 Mindat的历史版权 Who We Are 联系我们于 Mindat.org刊登广告

捐赠给 Mindat Corporate Sponsorship 赞助板页已赞助的板页在 Mindat刊登广告的广告商于 Mindat.org刊登广告

Learning Center What is a mineral?The most common minerals on earth Information for Educators Mindat Articles The Elements The Rock H. Currier Digital Library Geologic Time

搜索矿物的性质搜索矿物的化学 Advanced Locality Search 随意显示任何一种矿物 Random Locality 使用minID搜索邻近产地 Search Articles 搜索词汇表更多搜索选项

Mindat手册添加新照片 Rate Photos 产区编辑报告 Coordinate Completion Report 添加词汇表项目

Mining Companies 统计会员列表 Mineral Museums Clubs & Organizations 矿物展及活动 The Mindat目录表设备设置 The Mineral Quiz

照片搜索 Photo Galleries Search by Color 今天最新的照片昨天最新的照片用户照片相集过去每日精选照片相集 Photography

BETA TEST - Fossil data and pages are very much experimental and under development. Please report any problems

Nesodon ✝

Photos

Photo Gallery

Description

Nesodon ("island tooth") 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—16.3 Ma and existed for approximately 12.7 million years. It had a relatively large size, weighing up to 554 kg (1221 lbs) and reaching 1.5 m in height.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesodon, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4829932	https://www.gbif.org/species/4829932
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	43396	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=43396

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Toxodontidae : Nesodon

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Notoungulata : Toxodontidae : Nesodon

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
order	Notoungulata	Roth 1903
suborder	Toxodontia	Ameghino 1887
family	Toxodontidae	Ameghino 1889
subfamily	Nesodontinae
genus	Nesodon	Owen 1847

Scientific Name

Nesodon Owen, 1847

Name Published In

Rep. Brit. Assoc. (Southampton 1846), 16, Trans.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Nesodon	genus	belongs to Perissodactyla	stated without evidence	Owen, 1848
Nesodon	genus	belongs to Nesodontidae	stated without evidence	Ameghino, 1887
Nesodon	genus	belongs to Toxodontidae	stated without evidence	Lydekker, 1894
Nesodon	genus	belongs to Nesodontidae	stated with evidence	Ameghino, 1907
Nesodon	genus	belongs to Toxodontidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Nesodon	genus	belongs to Nesodontinae	stated with evidence	Croft et al., 2004

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

29.0 - 21.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

16.0 - 11.6 Ma
Miocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

herbivore (based on Notoungulata)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesodon

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Acrotherium karaikense ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Acrotherium patagonicum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acrotherium rusticum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Acrotherium stygium ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Nesodon andium ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Nesodon brachycephalus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Nesodon cavifrons ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Nesodon conspurcatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	17.5 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Nesodon cornutus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Nesodon imbricatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	23.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Nesodon limitatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Nesodon marmoratus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	17.5 Ma Miocene	17.5 Ma Miocene
Nesodon obliteratus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Nesodon patagonicus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Nesodon taweretus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	21.0 Ma Miocene	17.5 Ma Miocene
Protoxodon conspurcatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Protoxodon marmoratus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Protoxodon obliteratus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Acrotherium Pomel, 1848	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Toxodontidae : *Acrotherium*
Acrotherium Ameghino, 1887	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Toxodontidae : *Acrotherium*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1846	Nesodon Owen
1848	Nesodon Owen p. 139
1887	Acrotherium Ameghino
1887	Adelphotherium Ameghino p. 22
1887	Nesodon Ameghino p. 59
1894	Nesodon Ameghino p. 21

Year	Name and Author
1894	Acrotherium Ameghino p. 25
1894	Nesodon Lydekker p. 25
1907	Nesodon Ameghino p. 89
1988	Nesodon Carroll
2004	Nesodon Croft et al. p. 4

References

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Owen R. Description of teeth and portions of jaws of two extinct Anthracotherioid quadrupeds (Hyopotamus vectianus and Hyop. bovinus) discovered by the Marchioness of Hastings in the Eocene deposits on the NW coast of the Isle of Wight: with an attempt to develope Cuvier's idea of the Classification of Pachyderms by the number of their toes, Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 4, 103-141

Ameghino F. Observaciones generales sobre el orden de mamíferos estinguidos sud-americanos llamados toxodontes (Toxodontia) y sinopsis de los géneros y especies hasta ahora conocidos, Anales del Museo de La Plata 1, 1-66

Ameghino F. Enumeration synoptique des especes de mammifères fossiles des formations éocènes de Patagonie, Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Cordoba (Republica Argentina) 13, 259-452

Lydekker R. Contributions to a knowledge of the Fossil Vertebrates of Argentina. III - A study of extinct argentine ungulates, Anales del Museo de La Plata. Paleontología Argentina 2 3, 1-86

Ameghino F. (1907) Les toxodontes ¡a cornes [The horned toxodonts], Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires 16, 49-91

Croft D. A., Flynn J. J., et al (2004) Notoungulata and Litopterna of Early Miocene Chucal Fauna, Northern Chile, Fieldiana Geology 50, 1-52

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

McKenna, M. C.; Bell, S. K. (1997). Classification of mammals above the species level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Rep. Brit. Assoc. (Southampton 1846), 16, Trans. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

Quick NavTop Fossil Distribution Subtaxa Obsolete Names Synonymy List References

Go to top of page