Anchitheriomys
| Anchitheriomys Temporal range: early Oligocene to middle Miocene | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Rodentia |
| Suborder: | Castorimorpha |
| Family: | Castoridae |
| Subfamily: | †Agnotocastorinae |
| Tribe: | †Anchitheriomyini |
| Genus: | †Anchitheriomys Roger, 1885 |
| Type species | |
| †Anchitheriomys weidemanni | |
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Anchitheriomys is an extinct member of the beaver family, Castoridae. Until recently, it was placed in a closely related family of rodents, Eutypomyidae,[1] but a partial skull shows similarities to another early beaver, Agnotocastor.[2]
References
- ↑
- McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997), Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, New York: Columbia University Press, ISBN 0-231-11013-8
- ↑
- Korth, William W.; Emry, Robert J. (1997), "The skull of Anchitheriomys and a new subfamily of beavers (Castoridae, Rodentia)", Journal of Paleontology, 71 (2), pp. 343–347
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