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Pericotoxodon | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | †Notoungulata |
Family: | †Toxodontidae |
Genus: | †Pericotoxodon Madden 1997 |
Species: | †P. platignathus
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Binomial name | |
†Pericotoxodon platignathus Madden, 1997
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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.