Trigodon is an extinct genus of the family Toxodontidae, a large bodied notoungulate which inhabited South America during the Late Miocene to Early Pliocene (Mayoan to Montehermosan in the SALMA classification), living from 11.61 to 4.0 Ma and existed for approximately . The type species is T. gaudryi.

It bore a superficial resemblance to a rhinoceros, in that it had a horn on its forehead.

Trigodon

Fossil distribution

Monte Hermoso Formation, Argentina

Solimões Formation, Acre State, Brazil, eastern slope of Andes Mountains.

Trigodon

References

Toxodonts

Miocene mammals of South America

Pliocene mammals of South America

Miocene genus first appearances

Pliocene extinctions

Montehermosan

Huayquerian

Chasicoan

Mayoan

Neogene Argentina

Fossils of Argentina

Neogene Brazil

Fossils of Brazil

Fossil taxa described in 1887

Taxa named by Florentino Ameghino

Prehistoric placental genera

Trigodon