Australoprocta
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Australoprocta | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Dasyproctidae |
Genus: | †Australoprocta Kramarz, 1988 |
Species: | †A. fleaglei
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Binomial name | |
†Australoprocta fleaglei Kramarz 1998
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Australoprocta is an extinct genus of dasyproctid rodent that lived during the Early Miocene of what is now Argentina. Fossils of this genus have been found in the Chichinales and Sarmiento Formations of Argentina.[1][2]
References
- ^ Kramarz, Alejandro G. (1998). "Un nuevo Dasyproctidae (Rodentia, Caviomorpha) del Mioceno inferior De Patagonia". 35 (2): 181–192. ISSN 1851-8044.
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(help) - ^ Madden, Richard H.; Carlini, Alfredo A.; Vucetich, Maria Guiomar; Kay, Richard F. (2010-06-17). "Colhuehuapian rodents from Gran Barranca and other Patagonian localities: the state of the art.". The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change Through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-87241-6.
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- Dasyproctidae
- Hystricognath rodents
- Prehistoric rodent genera
- Miocene rodents
- Miocene first appearances
- Miocene genus extinctions
- Miocene mammals of South America
- Colhuehuapian
- Neogene Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Fossil taxa described in 1998
- Chichinales Formation
- Golfo San Jorge Basin
- Sarmiento Formation