Eumegamys
| Eumegamys | |
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| Fossil femur of Eumegamys sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Family: | Dinomyidae |
| Genus: | †Eumegamys Kraglievich, 1926 |
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Eumegamys is an extinct genus of dinomyid rodent from the late Miocene and Pliocene of Brazil (Solimões Formation), Venezuela (Urumaco Formation, Urumaco) and Argentina (Ituzaingó Formation) in South America.[1]
Its skull was 50 cm (1.64 ft) long.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Eumegamys at Fossilworks.org
- ^ 新版 絶滅哺乳類図鑑. Yukimitsu Tomida. 30 January 2011.
Further reading
[edit]- McKenna, Malcolm C., and Bell, Susan K. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level. Columbia University Press, New York, 631 pp. ISBN 0-231-11013-8
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- Dinomyidae
- Prehistoric pacaranas
- Prehistoric rodent genera
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- Miocene mammals of South America
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- Uquian
- Chapadmalalan
- Montehermosan
- Huayquerian
- Neogene Argentina
- Fossils of Argentina
- Ituzaingó Formation
- Neogene Brazil
- Fossils of Brazil
- Neogene Venezuela
- Fossils of Venezuela
- Fossil taxa described in 1926
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