Agnotocastor
Agnotocastor Temporal range:
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Rodentia |
Family: | Castoridae |
Tribe: | † |
Genus: | †Agnotocastor Stirton, 1935 |
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Agnotocastor is an extinct member of the beaver family Castoridae. Unlike its modern relative, this species took the place of muskrats in the rivers of North America during the Oligocene epoch.
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Categories:
- Prehistoric beavers
- Eocene rodents
- Oligocene rodents
- Prehistoric rodent genera
- Eocene mammals of Asia
- Oligocene mammals of Asia
- Eocene mammals of North America
- Oligocene mammals of North America
- Prehistoric rodent stubs