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PV M 102043

Classification
Scientific name: Toxodon platensis Owen, 1837
Author: Owen, 1837
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Notoungulata
Family: Toxodontidae
Genus: Toxodon
Species: platensis
Higher classification: Animalia; Chordata; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Notoungulata; Toxodontidae
Location
Locality: Puerto Belgrano Naval Base, Punta Alta
State province: Buenos Aires
Country: Argentina
Continent: South America
Higher geography: South America; Argentina; Buenos Aires
Collection event
Recorded by: Charles R. Darwin
Expedition: Voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle
Vessel: HMS Beagle
Identification
Identified by: Sir William H. Flower
Identification qualifier: I would say that this determination was an assumption on the part of Flower, as he also mistook a Diprotodon incisor as a Toxodon tooth (M 100017) PB 20/03/2018
Determinations:
Names Types FiledAs
Toxodon platensis Owen, 1837
Specimen
Catalogue number: PV M 102043
Collection code: PAL ( Palaeontology)
Sub department: ES Mammals
Other catalog numbers: NHMUK:ecatalogue:8272547
Collection kind: Mammals
Collection name: ['Darwin Collection', 'Royal College of Surgeons of England']
Donor name: President and Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
Catalogue description: Fragment of two teeth in jaw with matrix
Stratigraphy
Earliest eon/lowest eonothem: Phanerozoic
Latest eon/highest eonothem: Phanerozoic
Earliest era/lowest erathem: Cenozoic
Latest era/highest erathem: Cenozoic
Earliest period/lowest system: Quaternary
Latest period/highest system: Quaternary
Earliest epoch/lowest series: Pleistocene
Latest epoch/highest series: Holocene
Chronostratigraphy: Quaternary, late Pleistocene - early Holocene
Record
Occurrence ID: 3d3ca85d-db0e-46e1-b14b-c1b99f3011b7
Modified: 2022-09-16 09:42:42 (UTC)
Created: 2018-02-21 15:54:04 (UTC)

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Additional Information

Created 2018-02-21 15:54:04 (UTC)
Last updated 2022-09-16 09:42:42 (UTC)
Format DWC
License CC0-1.0
Dataset collection-specimens
Dataset ID 56e711e6-c847-4f99-915a-6894bb5c5dea
Resource Specimens
Resource ID 05ff2255-c38a-40c9-b657-4ccb55ab2feb