Biology:Australoprocta

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Short description: Extinct genus of rodents

Australoprocta
Temporal range: Early Miocene (Colhuehuapian)
~21.0–17.5 Ma
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Dasyproctidae
Genus: Australoprocta
Kramarz, 1988
Species:
A. fleaglei
Binomial name
Australoprocta fleaglei
Kramarz 1998

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

  1. Kramarz, Alejandro G. (1998) (in en). Un nuevo Dasyproctidae (Rodentia, Caviomorpha) del Mioceno inferior De Patagonia. 35. pp. 181–192. ISSN 1851-8044. https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/article/view/2431. 
  2. 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." (in en). The Paleontology of Gran Barranca: Evolution and Environmental Change Through the Middle Cenozoic of Patagonia. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-87241-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=oY7wkK6lV4cC&q=Colhuehuapian+rodents+from+Gran+Barranca+and+other+Patagonian+localities%3A+the+state+of+the+art.&pg=PA206. 

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